Mayor Ann Corbett knows Floral Park. She and her husband, Bill Corbett of Corbett Associates, a public relations firm in the village, have been residents for more than three decades. Since being elected the village's first woman mayor last March she's gotten to know even more about her hometown as well as the people who live in it. Mayor Corbett is Floral Park's seventeenth mayor to serve the village since 1929. FULL STORY

Diagnosed with esophageal cancer three years ago and while traveling back and forth to New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering for aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Garden City resident Michael Tenaglia made a pact with God that if he survived his surgery, he'd help people with cancer. Roughly two years ago, Tenaglia fulfilled his end of the deal when he co-founded, along with his wife, Patti, the Garden City-based MIRACLE (Making In Roads Against Cancer's Lasting Effects) Foundation. FULL STORY