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April 18, 2008  RSS feed
Chamber Hears Condo Plans
The Chamber of Commerce's heard repsrentatives of the proposed Winston 285-unit, nine story condominium planned for the north side of Old Country Road in Mineola at its luncheon program on April 2. L-R: Althea Robeinson, Chamber executive director; Roger Eltringham, president; Steve Ford, Mineola Chamber of Commerce president; Mineola Mayor Jack Martins; Vincent and Michael Polimeni (Polimeni International, Inc.) and Russell Matthews, (Albanese Organization), Chamber vice president. Article and more photos on pages 36-37 More...
School Board Adopts Budget
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

The Garden City Board of Education officially adopted a budget totaling $94,505,801 at their April 16th meeting. This is a budget to budget increase of 4.49 percent. Residents will face a tax levy increase of 4.48 percent. The "average" home, which is one assessed at $2,310, will see an increase in taxes of approximately $374.05. More...

Police Arrest Suspect In T-Mobile Thefts
By Ann Cadigan

Garden City Police recently arrested a man in connection to a recent string of thefts that had occurred at T Mobile in Garden City. More...

 Community
• Phantom Ball To Benefit Hope Lodge, NYC
The Garden City Unit of the American Cancer Society requests the pleasure of your company at the Twentieth Annual Phantom Ball. This beloved and unique event will not be held on Saturday, the third of May, at anytime whatsoever. More...
• Adelphi To Host Conference On Entrepreneurship
• Adelphi Welcomes Parenting Expert
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 School
• article has image Middle School Students Get To "Move" !!!
Students in two classes at Garden City Middle School are sharpening their skills this spring through movement and music thanks to The Andréa Rizzo Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in memory of a young Special Education teacher and lifelong dancer. More...
• PTA General Meeting, Reflections Awards
• WPOA Scholarship
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 Sports
• article has image GC Girls Lax Beats North Shore 13-5
In a game of two undefeated teams the Garden City Trojans girls varsity lacrosse team traveled to Glen Head to take on the North Shore Vikings on Tuesday afternoon April 15th. Garden City had a 4-3 lead at halftime and went on to outscore North Shore 9-2 in the second half bringing the final score to 13-5.Caroline McTiernan led the Trojans scoring with five goals. More...
• article has image Centennial Girls Success At Roughriders!
• article has image Xtreme Eliminated From Waldbaums
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 Obituaries
• article has image In Memoriam
Mary Jane Niemann Mary Jane Niemann, age 80 of Stow, Massachusetts, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 2nd at Emerson Hospital. Her daughter, Nan Mary, and son-in-law, Carl, were with her. Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1927, she was the daughter of Charles H. W. Farnham and Mary Canney Farnham. More...
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 Letters
• A Word From The Publisher
Students and teachers in the neighboring West Hempstead School District said goodbye to two seniors last week after they lost their lives in a horrific lunch time car accident. The students were killed when they went out for lunch with a third senior (who was badly injured) and struck a utility pole. More...
• Letters To The Editor
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 View From Here
• The View From Here . . .
The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States this week comes at both a very good and very bad time for American Catholics. One way of measuring the current state of the Catholic church is to compare it with fifty years ago, in the 1950's. More...
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