May 11, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

School District Holds Budget Hearing

Garden City residents were given an opportunity to ask questions and voice concerns on the proposed school budget at a May 8th public hearing held before the regular work session of the Garden City Board of Education. More...

Community

A Word From The Publisher

Nassau County has declared May as “Melanoma Awareness Month. This is a very appropriate time as many people’s thoughts are turning towards outdoor summer activities and vacations. More...

Mark Your Calendars - Please Vote:

The 2012-2013 Budget Vote and Trustee Election will take place on May 15th, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., in Garden City High School Gymnasium. More...

Susan Lucci Book Signing At Historical Society

The Garden City Historical Society is proud to welcome Susan Lucci, Broadway and television star, theater and cabaret performer, winner of numerous awards and honors, entrepreneur and Garden City resident, as a special guest in the Society's "Meet th More...

Sports

Exciting OT Win As Trojans Boys’ JV Lax Defeats Manhasset 10-9

As the opening act for the 122nd playing of the Wood Stick Classic, the boys JV lacrosse teams of Garden City and Manhasset took the field on Saturday morning May 5th at Garden City High School’s Warren King Field. More...

Garden City Soccer Scores

Pre-K Boys WEEK 5 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Blue Dragons Andrew Brancaccio Vincent Abrusci Marc Stamidis The Pirates Michael Berkery Troy Kakoyiannis Daniel Deverna More...

Defense And Middies Key Trojans’ Wood Stick Win; Playoffs Open Friday

About the only thing that didn’t go perfectly at last Saturday’s 122 nd Wood Stick Classic lacrosse game was the weather. More...

School Budget Passes

The Garden City School District budget has passed, 1820 to 1044. Tom Pinou and Robert Martin were unopposed. More details will be found in this Friday's Garden City News. More...

Decision On Doubleday Condo Project Adjourned

In one of its first actions taken at its May 3rd meeting, the Garden City Board of Trustees approved a developer’s request to adjourn a decision on the condominium project planned on the 4.9-acre Doubleday property located at 301 Franklin Avenu More...

Resident: Village a “Poster Child For Double Dipping”

The Garden City Board of Trustees attempted to rise above the rancor and tension of its last session and calmly attend to several agenda items at its May 3rd meeting, but was briefly sidelined by a resident upset with four department heads who are re More...

Consultant To Study Village’s Cultural And Recreational Needs

The Garden City Board of Trustees unanimously voted to authorize the preparation of request for proposals (RFPs) to hire a consultant to gauge residents’ recreational and cultural needs and desires through a Village-wide Community Needs Assessm More...

School

Candidates to Run Unopposed For Seats On Board of Education

Two candidates, Tom Pinou and Robert G. Martin, will run unopposed for seats on the Board of Education in the May 15th election at the Garden City High School. The terms are for three years effective July 1, 2012. More...

GCHS Spanish Student Wins Prestigious Language Award

Garden City High School senior Keith Hoge, pictured here with high school Spanish teacher Marie Nuzzi, was this year’s recipient of the prestigious Judy Abrams Scholarship, an award given each year by the AATSP, the American Association of Teac More...

College Notes

Andrew Le Coche, a 2010 graduate of Garden City High School, is the undergraduate winner of Downbeat Magazine’s 35th annual student award for “Original Composition Orchestrated Work”. More...

Letters

Assessments Went Down

To the Editor: More...

Stop The Madness

To the Editor: First, I'd like to thank Kent Penney and Bob Orosz for their letters last week, May 4. If you haven't read them, do so. More...

Know Before You Vote

To the Editor: More...

View From Here

The View From Here . . .

One reason that it is so difficult to get a handle on the 2012 presidential election is that it is hard to figure out who will actually cast a ballot in the fall. More...