Since shipping sewage to the South Shore (say this quickly five times) is a slippery subject, The Record took a tour of the Village of Great Neck's Water Pollution Control Department to learn more about what happens to waste water after customers flush toilets, empty bathtubs or wash their clothes. FULL STORY

Sometimes school administrators and staff must feel they are operating in parallel universes. There are the predictable, reassuring rhythms of the school day with the smell of chalk, the shouts of kids at play, the hum of classrooms and stray notes wafting from the music room. And then there are the Disaster Response Team meetings, in which the "what-ifs" of horrific scenarios are played out, dissected, discussed and evaluated and the plans for dealing with those imagined scenes are refined. It is work that is intense and real and yet much of the work of these committees is kept low key and confidential for security reasons. FULL STORY

On Wednesday, March 4, the day following the Great Neck North High School Sports Awards, sweatshirts started appearing around the school that said, "They said we couldn't do it." "It" refers to accomplishing something North girls' basketball had never done. "It" was the playoffs. FULL STORY

The 2003 Julia's Run for Children will be held Sunday, March 30 at the Yale University campus in New Haven, CT. Family and friends started this unique tribute to continue the ideals of their beloved Julia, a graduate of North High, who died unexpectedly in 1999, at age 21. The Run's proceeds benefit underprivileged youth, whose cause she continuously worked for and championed. FULL STORY