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September 19, 2008  RSS feed
2008 Garden City Homecoming Parade
The Garden City community is invited to attend the 2008 Homecoming Parade on Saturday, September 27th commencing at 11:30 a.m. The parade will organize at the Toll House on Seventh Street and begin marching from Franklin Avenue along Seventh Street past the middle school on to Stewart Avenue and terminate on the back field of Garden City High School. More...
Opinion Poll Canceled
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

The Garden City News has learned that since the Sept. 11th meeting of the Garden City Board of Trustees, the Joint Conference Committee of property owners' associations reconvened on Sept. 15th but was unable to come to an agreement on the opinion poll questions. The matter has now been turned over to the Garden City Board of Trustees. More...

Board Enters POA Fray
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

The recent tension among the Village's four property owners' associations, who have not been able to reach agreement on the questions to be posed to residents in an opinion poll scheduled to be held on Oct. 7th, became a subject of debate at the Sept. 11th meeting of the Garden City Board of Trustees. The Oct. 7th poll has since been canceled [see related article]. More...

 Community
• Trustee Demands Apology From Resident
Second Deputy Mayor Thomas Lamberti has demanded an apology from the wife of Trustee Nicholas Episcopia after she compared him to "someone like Mussolini" during the public comment portion of the Sept. 11th meeting of the Garden City Board of Trustees. More...
• Forum On Buying A New Home
• article has image Suozzi To Report On Tax Hike Plus GC's "Cool Downtown"
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 School
• School Board Begins Year With Accolades
The first Garden City Board of Education meeting of the school year began on an upbeat note, as students and the Garden City Middle School were recognized for special achievements. Five students who won medals in the 2008 Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged were congratulated: Matthew Castellano, Michael Lynch, Philip Mamos, Grayce Nix and Colin Ripp. More...
• article has image Metrics Pay Off For Middle School Student
• article has image Donation To Ronald McDonald House
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 Sports
• GCCC Ladies Golf News Garden City Country Club
Ladies 18 holer News Results August 26, 2008 Champion Flight 1st Low NetEileen Caruso29 2nd Low NetCathy Houston 30 (Tie)Ann Tuomey 30 A Flight 1st Low NetMary Hickey 25 More...
• article has image GC Flash Open Season With Two Shutouts
• article has image Girls Swimming, Diving Off To Good Start
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 Letters
• A Word From The Publisher
It's unfortunate that the St. Paul's opinion poll that was to have been done by the POAs is apparently not going to take place. It would have been an ideal opportunity for the POAs to inform their respective trustees of the wishes of their residents. More...
• Letters To The Editor
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 View From Here
• The View From Here . . .
I have written this type of column before, but I thought an update for the 2008 political season would be in order. The following is a hopefully non-partisan guide for interpreting opinion polls and putting them into perspective. At this season we are deluged with opinion polls on all subjects. Some can be resolutely ignored. More...
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