The Massapequa Board of Education has voted to keep in place its policy of using the Lee Place walkway in bus eligibility measurements, after trustee Robert Thompson proposed doing away with the practice. FULL STORY

Kerry Geiler, a senior at Massapequa High School, has been selected as an Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist for her research on ant communication. FULL STORY

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the Plainedge Soccer Club Charity Indoor Soccer Tournament raised in excess of $2,000 worth of new toys that went directly to the children at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. FULL STORY

The December 1999 meeting of the Greater Long Island Running Club was the club's annual Awards Night for 1999, and several club members from Farmingdale and the Massapequas were the recipients of special awards. FULL STORY