L-R: Village Trustee Gerard Lundquist, Mayor Peter Bee, Deputy Mayor John Mauk; Santa; George L. Engelke, Jr., Chairman & CEO, Astoria Federal Savings, sponsor; and Roger Eltringham, president, Garden City Chamber of Commerce, coordinator. More...
Although many Garden City children are waiting for Dec. 25 to arrive, adults are counting the days until Dec. 18, when it is possible the Garden City Board of Trustees will decide the fate of the historic Main Building at St. Paul's. "There's eight people on this Board," Mayor Peter A. Bee said at the Dec. 4th Board meeting. "I'm not going to say it's carved in stone. More...
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Feirsen presented a set of guidelines he plans to use when determining the budget for 2009-10 at the Dec. 9th work session of the Garden City Board of Education. More...
Skies were threatening, but the rain held off and did not to interference with the annual Tree of Lights holiday celebration conducted by the Council of Leagues of Mercy Medical Center. The December 9th ceremony included caroling by the St. More...
The Garden City School District is assuring residents via their Web site that they were not involved in any way with a recent security breach involving an outside computer consulting company. The district posted the following message on their home page: "It has come to our attention that e-mail addresses of some Garden City parents were posted on a web site. More...
Chaminade Junior Varsity Football Team avenged their only loss of the season to Monsignor Farrell by defeating them on their home turf in Staten Island to claim the NY Metropolitan-CHSFL Championship. The win also snapped a 20 game home winning streak for Farrell. More...
We were glad to see that the Village has hired a firm to make sure the Village's concerns about the Nassau Hub proposal are heard. The Hub design includes a proposal for a light rail link between the Mineola train station and the development proposed for east of Garden City. Such a light rail system would likely have even more impact on Garden City than (dare we say it?) the fate of St. More...
Before the 2008 campaign fades into history, it might be useful to memorialize some of the reasons why John McCain lost the election. No doubt the single biggest factor was the economy and in particular the fall financial meltdown. While the economy had been soft all year, until September it seemed that we were basically in a slow growth mode rather than an outright recession. More...
Middle School Students In Art Exhibit