March 5, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

Hard Times Means Hard Decisions For Village Board

The Garden City Board of Trustees held a series of work sessions recently with Village department heads in a concerted effort to lower a projected 8.63 percent tax levy increase. More...

Community

Student Artist Contest Deadline Approaches

The Garden City Historical Society reminds students that the deadline of March 26 for submissions to the fifth annual Juried Children’s Art Contest, “Landscapes of Garden City” is only three weeks away. More...

CMF Spring Card Party

Please join CMF for its annual spring card party at the Garden City Casino on Monday March 22 nd . Boutique shopping will begin at 11:30 am and lunch will be served at 12 noon. More...

CPOA Meeting To Host Guest Speakers

Guest Speakers - Cyril Smith and William Bellmer More...

Sports

GCAA Basketball Starts March Madness Intramural Playoffs

The regular season is done, the seedings have been finalized and the brackets completed. All of our GCAA intramural basketball teams are part of the March Madness playoffs. More...

Lady Trojan Runners Have A Strong Week

Following up their dominating performances at the Conference and County meets, the girls of the varsity track team took on the rest of Nassau County once again on Tuesday, February 23rd for the State Qualifier meet at St. Anthony’s. More...

Major League Baseball RBI Program Coming to GC

Anyone watching the World Series last year or the MLB television network knows about the prestigious youth baseball program called Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities Program (RBI). More...

View From Here

The View From Here . . .

While there is no shortage of fodder for this column on the national scene, recent developments in the Empire State are worthy of comment as well. As a disclaimer, the opinions in this column are solely my personal views. More...

Mayor Office

From The Mayor’s Office

www.Gardencityny.net

Mayor@gardencityny.net ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE - MARCH 7 More...

Superintendent Calls For Staff Reduction, Bigger Classes

The proposed 2010-11 school budget will include a net reduction of 10.8 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, announced Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Feirsen at a Garden City Board of Education budget work session on Tuesday evening. More...

Runway Closure At JFK To Bring More Noise

Garden City residents learned this week that air traffic will increase over the Village during the next four months, now that a major runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport has been shut down for reconstruction. More...

School

Buckley Students Rally To Haitian Relief

Within 24 hours of the devastating Haitian earthquake, Buckley Country Day School Student Council, on behalf of the entire school community, framed an action plan to raise funds for the victims of this disaster. More...

GCHS Senior Class Parents

It’s not too late! Monday, March 8th is your chance to come see just what Senior Skit Night is all about (we will show a 4 min highlight DVD and have past skit night DVDs running throughout the evening). More...

GCHS Students Of The Month

Congratulations to Garden City High School junior Alexandra Ruhl and sophomore Maham Tariq for being selected as the high school’s December Student of the Month winners. More...

Obituaries

In Memoriam

Dorothy Schueler Dorothy Schueler, age 81, of Mansfield, Massachusetts, formerly of Sarasota, FL, East Hampton, and Garden City, died on February 22, 2010. More...

Letters

A Word From The Publisher

This week’s issue contains a great deal of information about the creation of the budgets for both the school board and village board. More...

Letters To The Editor

Email: editor@ gcnews.com

Who’s Opportunistic? To The Editor: More...