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July 18, 2008  RSS feed
T-Ball All Star Game
What six and under baseball team was chosen to play in the pre-All Star game celebration?While this year has been a year of great accomplishments for Garden City sports, our five and six year old boys have recently shown that they too can bring honor to our home town. More...
Busy Summer For School District
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

The Garden City Board of Education held its annual organization meeting on July 9th. Since Kenneth Monaghan stepped down in June after serving on the Board of Education for nine years, Board members appointed trustee Colleen Foley as president and Barbara Trapasso as vice-president and welcomed Angela Heineman, who ran unopposed for the pending open trustee position in May. 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 Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. More...

 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 oncology/hematology patients. More than 100 golfers braved threatening skies to play 18 holes for a great cause. More...
• Three Tenors In Concert At Eisenhower Park
• article has image Summer Art Workshops for Kids
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 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
• College Notes
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 Sports
• article has image 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. The meet starts at 8am at the Garden City pool. All are welcome to come and cheer on the team. More...
• article has image District 29 Champions
• article has image Bombers Tee Ball All Star Game
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 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. Some letters to the editor may have been held over until next week so that we can review them prior to publication, so if you have submitted one and it hasn't appeared, please be patient. More...
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 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 item. This is a significantly more uplifting story about a horse named Curlin. More...
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