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February 22, 2008
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Valentine's Day is time for sending messages to friends and loved ones-and to the nation's veterans-at Garden City primary schools. Hempstead Town Councilman Edward Ambrosino, with a group of first-graders and Principal Audrey Bellovin, visited Hemlock School earlier this month to pick up a box of V... More...

The Village of Garden City is now researching what legal remedy, if any, is available now that the Mineola Village Board has approved a $165 million, nine-story, luxury condominium project. "We believe that this project represents an urbanization of the area which we do not like," Tr... More...

The instructional component of the budget, which comprises the largest portion with a total of $70,080,302 or 74.05 percent, was discussed at a Garden City Board of Education work session on Monday evening. Superintendent Dr. Robert Feirsen's proposed 2008/2009 budget is $94,637,782,... More...

For the past several years, Girl Scout cookies have been sent to our military personnel overseas. So far this year, Girl Scout Troop 1275 has mailed almost 400 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to military friends. These cookies were purchased by family, friends and neighbors who gave donations t... More...
The Garden City girls stepped up to the challenge of the Pepsi National Hall of Fame meet at the Armory last Saturday entering four relay teams. The Lady Trojans had a great showing and came away with a first place finish in the invitational championship 4x800 relay, a fifth place finish in ... More...
George J. Boszilkov George J. Boszilkov, age 90, passed away on February 5. 2008. He was a resident of Garden City for 42 years. He was also a resident of Ridge, NY, The Villages, FLA and most recently Fayetteville, GA. More...
Email: editor@ gcnews.com Cart Before The Horse To the Editor: In recent weeks, I have read with interest various letters pertaining to the Avalon Porpsal for St. Paul's. Senator Kemp Hannon has stated repeatedly that he would pursue Home Rule, if there was a favo... More...
After having written on a number of occasions in the last six months that Senator Hillary Clinton is the very likely Democratic nominee for president, I have to admit that Senator Barack Obama is now the Democratic frontrunner. More...
The Board of Trustees will be conducting work sessions to review the proposed 2008/09 Operating/Capital Budgets on Thursday, February 28th at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday, March 1st at 8:30 a.m. These sessions will be held in the Board Room at Village Hall. More...