December 16, 2011 RSS feed / Front Page

Superintendent Confident But Cautious On State Aid

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Feirsen announced that he is "fairly confident," but still cautious, that the school district will receive a four percent increase in aid as originally promised from New York State. More...

Community

A Word From The Publisher

With only nine days to go before Christmas and five days before Hanukkah, hopefully most of our readers have gotten their shopping done already. More...

Coat Drive In Progress

Once again this year, Susan MacDonald and Rene Blair are organizing The INN Coat Drive at Daniel Gale Sotheby's / Dougall Fraser Division. More...

Judges Announce Holiday Window Winners

Judges representing Garden City's four property owners' associations and a professional artist have named the windows of the Garden City Chamber's 35th annual Holiday Shop Window Awards Competition. More...

View From Here

The View From Here . . .

2011 marks the end of United States military involvement, on any significant level, in Iraq. The Iraq War certainly had numerous twists and turns during its more than eight year history. More...

Mayor Office

UPDATE - LIPA EMERGENCY WORK WASHINGTON AVENUE AND TRANSVERSE ROAD

As previously advised, the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) will be working in the vicinity of Washington Avenue and Transverse Road to repair a major underground electrical cable that was determined to be in need of emergency replacement. More...

School Board Ratifies CSEA Agreement

The Garden City Board of Education unanimously voted to ratify a memorandum of agreement between the school district and the Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) non-teaching unit at its December 13th meeting. More...

L.I. Dance Project Holiday Hip Hop Dance Party Tonight!

Come to the Long Island Dance Project's Holiday Hip Hop Dance Party TONIGHT, December 16th. More...

School

School District to Offer Robotics Workshop

Fourth- and fifth-grade students who are interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics will be able to take a new robotics workshop being offered by the school district as part of its "Winter Program for Kids." More...

Garden City Public Schools Budget Development Calendar

Intensive work on the 2012- 2013 school district budget will soon be underway with the Board of Education and district administration. More...

High School HOPE Students Volunteer At Bird Sanctuary

On November 19th, student members of Garden City High School's HOPE (Hands on Protecting the Environment) Club and other volunteers helped out with the pre-winter clean-up at the Garden City Bird San More...