Judge Makes Ruling About Town of Hempstead Special Election -- In what is considered the final legal step of the 12-year lawsuit against the Town of Hempstead claiming the at-large voting system was racially discriminatory, United States District Court Judge John Gleeson, ordered a special election to take place on November 7, 2000, to implement councilmanic districts mandated by the district court, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court last month. FULL STORY

Henry W. Dwyer of Floral Park has been re-elected chairman of the Board of Governors of Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre. He was first elected to a two-year term as chairman in 1998. FULL STORY

The touch they lost, temporarily, may come back, in small amounts, as each week's "Columbian Cannonading" is exhibited by the Floral Park Knights of Columbus keglers, but come back it will, and when it does, it'll be: "Bar the door, Katie, an' git outa th' way!!" FULL STORY