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February 27, 2009  RSS feed
GCHS Alumnus Wins Oscar
Garden City High School alumnus Victor J. Zolfo (right) was honored with an Oscar for Art Direction at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 22nd. Mr. Zolfo, a member of the Class of 1981, was the set decorator for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and shared the award for the film with Donald Graham Burt (left). More...
Teaching Positions Reduced In School Budget
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

The proposed 2009-10 school budget will include a net reduction of almost five full-time equivalent teaching positions, announced Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Feirsen at a Garden City Board of Education meeting on Tuesday evening. He emphasized that class size guidelines will not change. More...

Lead Found In Middle School Basement
By Stephanie Mariel Petrellese

Parents of Garden City Middle School students recently received a letter informing them that a portion of the building had to be cleaned over winter recess after it was learned that a rifle range once existed in what is now a crawl space in the basement. More...

 Community
• article has image Darwin's 200th Birthday Celebrated
Recently the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island celebrated science in conjunction with Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. After a presentation by WBAI's Arnell Dowret, children of all ages dissected owl pellets, extracted DNA from strawberries, saw a volcano erupt, and presented science experiments. Dr. More...
• article has image New President Of Winthrop Named
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 School
• College Notes
Brandon Saldana , a senior at Chaminade High School has been admitted via early decision as a member of the Class of 2013 of Amherst College where he will major in Economics. He was ranked in top 10% of his class, a member of the National Honor Society, Honor Roll, carrying at 96.7 average, National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) Scholar. More...
• College Notes
• High School Students To Perform
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 Sports
• Travel Soccer Coach Interest Forms Available
The Garden City Centennial Soccer Club is looking for qualified coaches to head our new U10 teams that will tryout in June, 2009. The birthdates for the children on these teams will fall between August 1, 1999 and December 31, 2000. League Play for these teams will begin in September of 2009. More...
• Garden City Basketball - JrNBA Champs!
• article has image Wings Middle School Team Wins Two
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 Letters
• A Word From The Publisher
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the "Lighthouse At Long Island" development proposed for the Nassau Coliseum area has been released by its developers and should be of interest to Garden City residents. More...
• Letters To The Editor
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 View From Here
• The View From Here . . .
I've been reading a very topical book about the recent financial crisis, Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked and Government Bailouts will Make Things Work by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Regnery 2009). More...
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