Monday afternoon, with the storm conditions uncertain, Freeport’s Mayor Glacken canceled the village board meeting scheduled for later that evening. On Monday and Tuesday in Freeport, the schools were closed and the library closed early on Tuesday. The Port Authority had closed the airports and business's told people to stay home. New York City and other communities suspended alternate side of the street parking regulations due to the stormy conditions. Throughout the metropolitan area, neighbors were helping neighbors cope with the inclement conditions and dig out from the snow.

Tuesday morning saw the area blanketed in two to three inches of snow, with more still being predicted. That didn’t stop Freeport’s building department, leaderless since the mid nineties, from sending out their code enforcers. While other communities were suspending parking regulations to accommodate their residents, Glacken had his "storm troopers" out in force, scooping away the snow from resident’s windshields in order to give them tickets.

One resident, who was given the day off because of the weather and discovered a ticket buried under the snow on his windshield late on Tuesday, told FNYN, "It’s not like they were out plowing the streets today. This guy Glacken’s got no heart."

Correction - FNYN mistakenly reported that the building department was responsible for the ticketed vehicle pictured above. Many e-mails pointed out that this code enforcement has for years been under the village police department, supervised by former Freeport resident, Chief Woodward.

As usual, the robotic village board blasted through the evenings agenda without any discussion.

With the approval of over a half a million in tax certioraris, some going back years, Glacken and his gang of conservative republicans will be heaping more debt upon the tens of millions his administration has already saddled the public.

Earlier in the meeting, the village clerk corrected the January 29th board minutes. After the meeting, no one from the administration could explain the corrections they had just voted to approve. A rude Pat Murphy, the former part time and present full time patronage PR appointment, was unable to obtain a copy of the changes for either the local republican mouthpiece, the Leader or FNYN.

Fifteen minutes after it began, Glacken’s first session was over. The board disappeared into the back room for what Glacken claimed was 12 personnel matters and one real estate matter.

FNYN did not hang around for the results of that session, nor for Glacken’s famous "second" session, the one where Glacken and his brother in law, mob/village attorney Edwards, wait for everybody to go home, reconvene, and then mumble their way through resolutions which are incomprehensible to any member of the public less than six inches away. - Lilker

Unlike the Freeport School Board elections, in which the votes are tallied behind locked doors and the school board dares people to call the police, the village results are tallied in the village court in public, by village clerk Anna Knoeller and her deputy and staff.

As the envelope from each election district was opened, Ms. Knoeller read aloud the tally sheets and the numbers were recorded. Police chief Mike Woodward kept an eagle eye on the event, making sure everything was above board and in the open. None of the candidates or their representatives were on hand during the official count. Pictured is deputy clerk Carol Thomas tallying the votes, as Ms. Knoeller tried to locate the missing tally sheets.