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March 14, 2008 RSS feed / Front Page

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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. More...

School District Holds Final Budget Session

By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

The Garden City Board of Education focused on administrative and capital components of the 2008/2009 budget at its last budget work session on March 10th. More...

Community

Chamber To Hear Winston Condo Overview

By Developer And Mineola Mayor

How will the Winston, the planned 285-unit luxury condominium facility at Garden City's border on Old Country Road impact the Village? More...

Beauty Benefit Night

Kids For Wish Kids and The Key/Interact Club are hosting the Second Annual Beauty Benefit Night at the Garden City High School. This year we have over 15 vendors selling a variety of products we know women will find irresistible. More...

"A Time To Build" Is Experienced By Cathedral Youth

Ten teenagers from the Cathedral of the Incarnation's Journey to Adulthood Program set out on February 16, 2008 for a week to Mission On The Bay located in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to do Hurricane Katrina Relief Work. More...

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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. 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. More...

Letters To The Editor

Email: editor@ gcnews.com

Govern With Transparency To the Editor: At the Board of Trustees meeting on March 6, it was very interesting and enlightening to hear Mayor Martin of Mineola explain the apartment building that is planned for Old Country Rd. More...

Correction

There was a typographical error in a letter to the editor by Angelo DiPippo in last week's edition. The final paragraph should have read, "We can only hope that his successor will carry on with the same searching, impartial attitude as Mr. More...

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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 p 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. More...

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. More...

Second-Graders Take Hands Are Not For Hitting Pledge

Stratford School second-graders brainstormed about constructive and amiable ways people use their hands to express themselves and other acceptable methods of self-expression in February during a 45-minute interactive workshop conducted by visi More...

Primary Schools Highlight Mathematics On 100th Day of School Year

Students at Hemlock, Homestead, and Locust schools celebrated the 100th day of the academic year in February with a series of activities designed to inspire interest in and understanding of mathematics. More...

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Sports

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. More...

Want To Play Some Softball?

Of you are a resident of the Inc. Village of Garden City, age 18 or over, who would like to play softball in one of the Recreation Department's softball leagues. Call the Recreation Office at 465-4075 to put your name on our "player list". More...

Want To Ref For The Centennials?

A soccer reffing course is being offered to students in 7th grade or up who is interested in becoming a Garden City Centennial Soccer referee. More...

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View From Here

The View From Here . . .

By Bob Morgan, Jr.

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. More...

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