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March 9, 2007 RSS feed / Front Page

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GCHS National Merit Finalist

Julianne Ungar, a senior at Garden City High School, has been named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. Ms. More...

Upcoming School Board Budget Meetings

All meetings will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. The budget vote will be held in the high school gymnasium from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. More...

Irish Authors To Speak

Inspired by the Irish patriot John Devoy, the Catalpa Affair is one of the most audacious tales in Irish and Irish-American history. More...

Community

A Word From The Publisher

Although it doesn't feel like yet, spring is around the corner (really!). As a matter of fact, this year, the annual "springing forward" of the clocks will take place this weekend, which is several weeks earlier than in previous years. More...

Adelphi University Welcomes Nobel Laureate

Christian de Duve, recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the field of subcellular biology, will deliver Adelphi's Dakin Lecture, "Life's Adventures," on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m. More...

Sign Up For Bingo

Remember to reserve your place for The Andy Foundation Bingo Day at Cluett Hall in St. Paul's on March 14th! More...

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Sports

Garden City Travel Baseball Skills Clinic

On January 28th, the Garden City Travel Baseball Program hosted a special skills clinic at the new Frozen Ropes baseball facility in Garden City. More...

Garden City Takes 5th Place At State Championships

Chris Finnigan, Sean Lane, Colin Quinn and Sean Hosford qualified to swim at the public school state championships in Buffalo on March 1st and 2nd. The boys finished a Garden City Boys Best ever, taking 5th place overall. More...

Girls Varsity Basketball In Semifinals

Garden City's girls varsity basketball team traveled to Freeport on Wednesday, February 28th to take on Great Neck South in a Nassau Class A semi-final game. Kelly Donnelly led GC's scoring with 12 points, including two 3-pointers. More...

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PRIDE Anti-Drug & Alcohol Meeting A Real Bust

Special To The Garden City News By William Keegan, Jr.

On February 28th, the GC High School held a school-community forum to present the findings of the PRIDE Survey. Unfortunately, speaker Cynthia Knowles gave an eye opening presentation to a near-empty auditorium. More...

EPA Proposes Plan To Clean Up Fulton Ave. Site

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a plan to clean up the Fulton Avenue Superfund site in Garden City Park. More...

Congressman Pete King To Report On Homeland Security & Beyond

At a special luncheon on April 11 at the Garden City Hotel, the Garden City Chamber of Commerce is pleased to present as its keynote speaker Congressman Peter T. King, a Republican serving his eighth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. More...

Ex-Chief Ed Moran Receives American Legion Award

On Wednesday, February 21st, Garden City's William Bradford Turner American Legion Post awarded Ex-Chief Ed Moran with one of the Legion's Annual Law & Order Awards. More...

School

GCHS Masquers' Production of Little Shop of Horrors

Seymour, a clumsy employee in Mushnik's Flower Shop on Skid Row, daydreams of Audrey, his co-worker. Slow sales have forced the shop to the brink of closing. More...

Your Pot of Gold Awaits You At The St. Joseph School Limited Raffle

With only 1,000 tickets to be sold you don't need the luck of the Irish to have a chance at winning the St. Joseph School 2007 Limited Raffle. The grand prize $25,000 cash award could be your pot of gold this St. More...

School Board To Meet

The Garden City School District Board of Education will meet at at 8:15 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 2007, in the Cafeteria of the High School, 170 Rockaway Avenue. A review of the proposed 2007-2008 school budget will be conducted. More...

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Letters

Letters To The Editor

Code Of Ethics Needed To The Editor: One of the first official acts promulgated by Governor Spitzer was the publishing of Executive Order No. One relating to Government Employment and the public trust. More...

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View From Here

The View From Here . . .

By Bob Morgan, Jr.

Even 20 months before the election, Hillary Clinton looms large over the 2008 campaign. More...

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