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April 3, 2009  RSS feed
Benefit Yard Sale At Bird Sanctuary
The Garden City Bird Sanctuary and Garden City High School's H.O.P.E. club (Hands On Protecting the Environment) have teamed up to help facilitate recycling in our community. Not only are they helping to reuse and recycle items that would normally become trash, but they are also donating the proceeds to aid an environmental cause. H.O.P.E. More...
Residents To See Lower School Tax Levy
By Stephanie Petrellese

Garden City residents will see their school tax levy reduced from 2.33 percent to 1.57 percent, thanks to money from the federal economic stimulus package and the restoration of state aid by Gov. David A. Paterson. More...

The Current Budget Problem
Submitted by The Board Of Trustees Public InformationCommitteeNicholas P. Episcopia Chairperson

The 2009 - 2010 Village Budget process presented the Board of Trustees with a set of problems not faced in recent years. The current economic situation has affected all levels of government, from the State to the Villages. Garden City is no exception. More...

 Community
• article has image INNKeepers' Ball Honors GC Residents
The 2009 INNkeepers' Ball will be honoring Vicki and Joseph Ferrara of Garden City and Maureen and Ralph Nappi of East Hills. These two couples have been volunteers and supporters of The INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network) for many years. The INNkeepers' Ball will be on Thursday, May 14th at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale. More...
• article has image Cathedral Youth Collect Socks For Homeless
• Free Workshops ForBreast Cancer Patients
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 School
• PTA School Supply Sale Extended
The school supply committee sincerely apologizes for the current situation with the EPI website.EPI (the company handling the Garden City PTA's school supply program) is experiencing difficulties with its main website. We realize this has caused many questions and concerns when ordering your supplies this year. In order to still provide school supplies, our distributor Miss Chocolate (www. More...
• article has image Stewart School Valentines For Vets
• article has image Homestead School Valentines For Vets
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 Sports
• article has image Girls Varsity Track
The Spring season continued with positive results on a somewhat gusty day last Monday at NHP High School as the girls took on the host school, as well as Calhoun. Winning 10 of the 16 events at the tri meet, the Lady Trojans won the meet by a score of 94.5 to 46 to 26.5, with Calhoun taking second. The victories bring the girls record to a perfect 5-0. More...
• GC Centennial Spring Intramural Season
• article has image GC Soccer Player Travels To England
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 Letters
• A Word From The Publisher
Now that spring is here, we are starting to receive a large volume of sports materials. As we have in previous busy seasons, we ask that teams voluntarily reduce the number of photos provided to no more than four or five for ordinary games. More...
• Letters To The Editor
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 View From Here
• The View From Here . . .
The proposed New York State budget, whose passage appears likely at this writing, proves that all the bad news lately is not confined to Wall Street or even to Washington. Even supporters of the budget are not singing its praises. "This is not a happy budget," new Democratic state senate majority leader Malcolm Smith declared recently. More...
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