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March 14, 2008  RSS feed
Home Damaged By Falling Tree
A tree came through the roof of a Princeton Street home on March 5th. The home experienced $50,000 in damage, including water damage in the basement. LIPA was summoned to the scene due to downed power lines. In addition to the Garden City Fire Department the village Water Department and tree crew came to lend the homeowners a hand in the cleanup. (Photo courtesy Judith Dolan) More...
POA Opinion Sought On Winston Project
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

After listening to Mineola Mayor Jack Martins discuss the merits of the $165 million, nine-story, luxury condominium project near the Mineola/Garden City border at their March 6th meeting, the Garden City Board of Trustees voted to ask the property owners' associations for their opinion before submitting their recommendation to the Garden City Planning Commission. More...

New Committee Chairman Named
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

Second Deputy Mayor Thomas Lamberti will be the new chairman of the Mayor's Committee on St. Paul's, announced Mayor Peter Bee at the March 6th meeting of the Garden City Board of Trustees. "I accept this, shall I say, heavy burden that you have placed upon my shoulders," Lamberti said. More...

 Community
• article has image Chamber To Hear Winston Condo Overview
How will the Winston, the planned 285-unit luxury condominium facility at Garden City's border on Old Country Road impact the Village? The Garden City Chamber invites members of the Garden City business and residential communities to hear an overview of the project featuring Vincent Polimeni, developer and CEO. More...
• article has image Beauty Benefit Night
• article has image "A Time To Build" Is Experienced By Cathedral Youth
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 School
• Garden City High School Honor Rolls
The following students were named to the Garden City High School Honor Rolls for the second quarter. Students who achieve an unweighted grade point average of 91 and above are awarded Principal's Honors. Students who achieve an unweighted grade point average between 87 and 90.99 are awarded First Honors. Students who achieve an unweighted grade point aver-age between 83 and 86. More...
• article has image Second-Graders Take Hands Are Not For Hitting Pledge
• article has image Primary Schools Highlight Mathematics On 100th Day of School Year
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 Sports
• article has image Long Island Rugby
Change is everywhere in the Long Island Colts camp, the high school rugby team has over 20 new players, which has yielded a host of new fans and families out to watch the boys play their new sport. The new look Colts even have new rugby uniforms, and on Sunday the Long Island u19's played on a new turf field for the first time in Massapequa. More...
• Want To Play Some Softball?
• Want To Ref For The Centennials?
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 Obituaries
• In Memoriam
Albert F. Dieterich Albert F. Dieterich, passed away peacefully at his home in Garden City on Friday, March 7, 2008. Al was born in Franklin Square but built his home in Garden City more than fifty-five years ago. He and his wife, Florence, raised their three sons here to enjoy the advantages of the Village and the schools. More...
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 Letters
• A Word From The Publisher
The nine story Winston condominium project which was recently approved by the Mineola Board of Trustees was again a topic of discussion at the Garden City Village Board's meeting last week. We have heard comments recently which admired the way Mineola got concessions from the developer of the project in exchange for a much greater density of units. More...
• Letters To The Editor
• Correction
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 View From Here
• The View From Here . . .
This is written on the morning after Governor Eliot Spitzer's bombshell announcement, with no resolution yet of the governor's future. While I can't say that I was an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Spitzer, it is sad to see such a fall from grace of a talented man and sad to see his family have to be caught up in this mess. More...
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