November 17, 2006 RSS feed / Front Page

Early Deadline

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, our deadlines will be one day early next week. More...

Community

Golden Goose Gala House Tour, Holiday Boutique

Twigs of Winthrop-University Hospital Women's Auxiliary heralds an exciting fundraising season this weekend with its 32nd Annual Golden Goose Gala Candlelight House/Gallery Tour and Holiday Shopping Boutique. More...

Hotel Prepares For Annual Tree Lighting Spectacular

The Garden City Hotel continues the tradition of its Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Monday, November 27 beginning at 5:30 pm. More...

AdoptaPlatoon "Stockings from Santa"

The "AdoptaPlaton Soldier Support Effort" founded in 1988 is a nonprofit 501C-3 organization managed nationwide by volunteer mothers to ensure that deployed US Service members in all branches of the military are not forgotten by providing needed mail More...

Sports

Thunder Maroon's Season Comes To An End

The Thunder Maroon 11's faced off against the Massapequa Mustang's this Sunday and came up short in a 13-0 loss. More...

The Blue Sharks Show Their Trophies

The Blue Sharks, a 2nd Grade Centennial soccer team, proudly show their trophies for the fall 2006 season. We love soccer! More...

Girls Centennial Soccer - 2nd Grade

Players of the Week - 11/11/06 Purple Extreme: More...

Principals Present Space Needs

As the season quickly approaches when children will sit down and with careful consideration create their "wish list" for holiday gifts, principals from every building in the Garden City School District sat down with the Board of Education Monday even More...

Seat Belt Compliance Campaign

Starting November 13th, the Garden City Police Department is joining agencies throughout Nassau County and New York State in the "Buckle Up New York, Click it or Ticket" Campaign. More...

A Word From The Publisher

Active Thankfulness This Thanksgiving, let's be thankful for all of the blessings that have been bestowed upon us, but let's do it in an active way, rather than passively. More...

School

Building Character Through Song

Students at Stewart and Stratford Schools laughed and sang their way through lessons about food, language and geography last week at a special performance of "Hooray for the World" presented by noted children's entertainer Red Grammar. More...

Schedule Change For Winter Festival

Anticipation of the Winter Festival is building at Locust School, where students are practicing for their festival performances. The festivities will be held on Friday, December 15, in the Multipurpose Room. More...

School Board To Meet

The regular meeting of the Board of Education will meet at More...

Letters

Letters To The Editor

Email: editor@ gcnews.com

Our Worst Fear To The Editor: And there it was. A parent's worst fear, a bag of marijuana nestled neatly in my son's belongings. Once, again... promises it won't happen again... a third time...here? In Garden City? More...

View From Here

The View From Here . . .

It was not quite the massive tidal wave that some had predicted, but, contrary to the prediction in this space two weeks ago, it was a wave of some sort. More...