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Library asks for input on redesign plan at BaldwinPL.org — asks community members what improvements, amenities and services Community members had they would like to see at the the opportunity to learn about facility, with options including and comment on the Baldwin more meeting spaces, study Public Library’s proposed plans rooms and a makerspace, a colto redesign and renovate the laborative workspace for projfacility, subject to a public refer- ects of all kinds. endum, at a board A t t h e Fe b. 7 meeting on Feb. 7. It meeting, library was the library’s Director Elizabeth second design planOlesh said the ning meeting focuslibrary had parting on the renovan e re d w i t h H 2 M tions. Architects + EngiThe board of neers, in Melville, to trustees initially create preliminary announced its intendesign plans for its tion to offer a referfirst and second endum on the redefloors, which were sign of a 7,900featured in a presensquare-foot undeveltation. oped room on the “Over the past l i b r a r y ’s s e c o n d few months, we’ve floor at a special been speaking to the meeting on Oct. 3. community, adminELIZABETH Since then, there istered a survey, and has been a public OLESH held a couple of puboutreach campaign director, Baldwin l i c m e e t i n g s, t o that has included an understand what the Public Library online survey, newspublic wants from letters, and discusthe library,” Olesh sions at organizational meetings said. “Our architects’ (designs) including the Chamber of Com- have reflected what people have merce, to help library officials said they want to see in the floor better understand what resi- plans.” dents want from their library. The newest plans deviate sigThe online survey — still live CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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Courtesy Stephen Carroll
STEPHEN CARROLL, A former Baldwin High School phys. ed. teacher and football coach, has sold more than 100 copies of his book, ‘100 Years of Baldwin Football,’ which he self-published.
Stephen Carroll publishes ‘100 Years of Baldwin Football’ By ANDRE SILVA asilva@liherald.com
Stephen Carroll, 64, a former Baldwin High School phys. ed. teacher and football coach, has sold more than 100 copies of his book, “100 Years of Baldwin Football,” a compendium of the high school gridiron program, since he self-published it last year. Carroll said he spent the past four years compiling stories and collecting photos from friends, colleagues, the Baldwin Historical Society, the Baldwin Foundation for Education, former players, and football parents for the book, which was printed by Minuteman Press, in Rockville Centre, last September.
He plans to order another 100 copies to offer for sale. Carroll said he first got the idea to write the book in 1982, when he met George Craig, Baldwin High’s football coach from 1929 to 1958. Craig gave him hundreds of old photos, which came in handy when Carroll started working on the project in 2019. “I was thinking, what am I going to do with these pictures?” he recalled. “So I put them away in my famous filing cabinet, which is a pile of papers and documents in my basement.” Near the end of his coaching career, in 2019, Carroll realized that the high school CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
ur architects’ (designs) have reflected what people have said they want to see in the floor plans.