July 18, 2008 RSS feed / Front Page

Community

Fourth Annual Cancer Center For Kids Golf Outing

The fourth annual Cancer Center for Kids Golf Outing, held at the Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge on June 16, was a terrific success, raising more than $47,000 in support of vital support programs for Winthrop's pediatric on More...

Three Tenors In Concert At Eisenhower Park

Caledon will perform on Saturday evening, July 26, 2008, at a free concert at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park, announced Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi. More...

Summer Art Workshops for Kids

School's out for summer and there's still time to sign up for two exciting kids' art workshops at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages in Stony Brook. More...

Letters

A Word From The Publisher

As we do each July, the publishers are on vacation in Vermont this week. Portions of this issue were prepared in advance, with the remainder completed by our staff. More...

View From Here

The View From Here . . .

Since I never quite wrote about this year's highly disappointing Belmont Stakes, beyond a paragraph on a column about how Big Brown's disastrous run was one of many downbeat events recently, perhaps I can be forgiven for another horse racing More...

Busy Summer For School District

The Garden City Board of Education held its annual organization meeting on July 9th. More...

Author Of "The Price Of Privilege" To Speak At Special Event

The Garden City PTA and the Garden City Community Council for Violence Prevention and Substance Abuse are please to sponsor Madeline Levine, author of The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generat More...

School

College Notes

Ms. Megan E. Hyland received the B.S.C. degree on Thursday, June 5 from Washington and Lee University. Commencement ceremonies for more than 435 Washington and Lee students were held on the university's historic Front Lawn. More...

School District Drops Effort To Seek Injunction

The Garden City School District today announced it would drop its efforts to seek a temporary injunction that would prevent the Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency (IDA) from granting significant tax abatements to the prospective p More...

College Notes

The following residents graduated on May 18 from Marist College: Dean J. Conigliaro of Garden City received a Master of Public Administration in Public Administration. More...

Sports

Garden City Swim Team News

This past Saturday, July 12, the Garden City swim team competed against Valley Stream and won their second dual meet of the season. This Saturday the team will host their toughest competition at home, the Long Beach swim team. More...

District 29 Champions

The Garden City 11 year old baseball team won the Little League District 29 championship on Friday, July 11 by defeating New Hyde Park. More...

Bombers Tee Ball All Star Game

Lightning fast Chris Schwantner is airborne as he races to home plate More...