JOIN FACILITATOR Marvin Illman as he conducts workshops on the first and third Monday of each month to help improve your writing skills, at Barnes and Noble, Country Glen Center, Carle Place. Come in and see on Monday, March 15, 7:30 p.m... IF YOU’RE THINKING of adopting a dog, try the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter first by calling 944-8220... THE NEXT REGULARLY scheduled Board of Trustees meeting will be held on Thursday, March 18, at 8 p.m... The Mineola High School class of 1970 is holding their 40th reunion on Saturday October 9 at 6:30 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, Mineola. On Friday October 8, join the group upstairs at TR’s on Hillside Avenue in Williston Park-just a few blocks from the East Williston train station. Contact Laura Sheridan Moyse at LMOYSE50@optonline.net...

POLICE REPORT: MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM

ON MARCH 7, UNKNOWN persons smashed an outdoor driveway lamp valued at $475... ON MARCH 5, PO Oswald stopped a 40-year-old Hempstead man for alleged aggravated DWI (.19%) on Meadow Street. He was also charged with aggravated unlicensed operation 1st degree (felony) for having a suspended license for a past DWI violation, and charged with fail to signal turn, unsafe lane change, uninsured and no seatbelt worn... ON MARCH 6, PO Oswald stopped a 24-year-old male from Hempstead on Meadow Street for allegedly going the wrong way on Meadow Place. He was arrested for aggravated DWI (.22% BAC), aggravated unlicensed operation, wrong way on a one way street, failing to stop for a stop sign and failing to signal turn. On March 4, detectives arrested a 19-year-old male from Franklin Square and an 18-year-old male from East Meadow for a February 25 grand larceny at Sears. They allegedly stole over $1,000 in assorted electronic merchandise... ON MARCH 7, PO Walsh arrested a 40-year-old male from Freeport for allegedly stealing over $200 in over the counter medicines at CVS... ON MARCH 1, SOMEONE stole a laptop from a room at Adelphi University’s Weinberg Hall. Value was $999... ALSO ON MARCH 1, someone entered an unlocked car on First Street during the overnight hours and allegedly stole an EZ Pass and a Sony PSP. Value was $225...

FIRE REPONSES:

ON MARCH 3, a fire occurred in the engine of a bus traveling along Franklin Avenue. All passengers were evacuated and the fire was contained... FD Rescued A Child locked in a bathroom at a Tullamore Road house on March 5... AN ALARM WENT OFF because of insecticide bomb being used in a restaurant on Franklin Avenue on March 6... LIPA WAS NOTIFIED because of wires down at a NHP Road house on March 8. A passing truck had evidently hit the wires there..Also On March 8, a carbon monoxide detector sounded at a Third Street residence but nothing was found...

That’s all this week. G.T.