The William M. Gouse Jr. Post #3211 Veterans of Foreign Wars announced the winners of its Voice of Democracy Tape Essay Contest, "America's Role for the Next Century," earlier this week. FULL STORY

Calling for the complete reassessment of Nassau's over 415,000 parcels of property in a news conference held in the press room of the State Supreme Court building in Mineola earlier this week, Nassau County Assessor Charles O'Shea made the most dramatic step to date to modernize the county's assessment system that has been unchanged since 1938. FULL STORY

Holy Family faced a must win situation in their last regular season game in order to clinch a tie for first place. Holy Family started slowly and found themselves tied after one quarter. FULL STORY

The Hicksville Hotshots, the under-10 girls travel team, celebrated their first place win in their division for the fall season with a skating party. This spring the Hotshots will be Hicksville's first under-10 team to ever make it to Division I. Congratulations girls! Pictured left to right are (first row) Erin Breen, Kacey Abbriano, Laurel O'Donnell, Joanne Hernandez, Jaclyn Vitanza, (second row) Lauren Fox, Kathleen Pollet, (3rd. row) Nicole Tarone, Christa Levko, Julia Finlay, Courtney Breen and Lisa Anuskiewicz. Not pictured are Amy Vlahos Kitas and Coach Tina Vitanza. FULL STORY