MetLife Financial Services of Nassau-Suffolk presented the Hicksville Gregory Museum with a $7,000 donation on Wednesday for being a winner of its Good Business Practice Award. The award recognizes the museum for its "outstanding ethics and compliance in the community."

The Gregory Museum competed with such large-named organizations as St. Francis Hospital's Cancer Research Center, for the award. According to James Pavone, museum president, the money will be used to fund the museum's elementary coloring books, which will feature fossils, dinosaurs, seashells, butterflies and minerals. The first set of books is scheduled to arrive at the museum within the next month.

Gary Sangre, the agency director of MetLife who awarded the funds to the Gregory Museum, said donations such as the one awarded to the Gregory Museum "make a big difference, especially on the local level. We like picking the arts and things that help the community."

- Victoria A. Caruso