The New Hyde Park/Garden City Park School Board held a rare special meeting last Monday basically to appoint various teachers so that they could start after Labor Day. Further, the board adopted a new reading curriculum so that it could be implemented at the start of school. FULL STORY

As an offshoot of the GOP New York Convention The Governor of Alaska Frank and First Lady Nancy Murkowski traveled to Long Island and the Riverbay Seafood restaurant, 700 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, to introduce their prized Alaskan King Salmon to a room full of guests courtesy of gracious host and proprietor Dean Poll. FULL STORY

A talented group of 8-year-olds, brought together only three weeks before, went to Queens, fought their way through a hotly contested H.B.Q.V.B. Tournament, and came back home as champions. FULL STORY