The Oyster Bay Western Waterfront is hoping to benefit from a new Long Island Power Authority program created to use existing geothermal forces to help cool and warm the site. The system has already been tested by the Scotto Brothers Enterprises, the developer/owner of a new, 145-room luxury hotel, the Inn at Fox Hollow, in Woodbury. The Scottos are also the part-owners of Chas. Rothmann's Steak House in East Norwich. NYS Governor George Pataki presented them with a $180,000 rebate check for using geothermal technology to heat and cool the new hotel at a ceremony on Wednesday, Feb. 27. FULL STORY

In an effort to ensure that citizens are appropriately represented by their elected officials, the Joint Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment released a rough draft of new state legislative district boundaries earlier this month. FULL STORY

March is here and it will soon be time to get back on the water. Last winter, our new boat was delivered to Willis Marine in Huntington. We weren't planning on a new boat. We were planning on a newer, bigger boat. Our search on the Internet led us to Cape Cod and a 38' center cockpit Moody. It was a little bigger than we needed, a little older than we wanted, but it was a "Blue Water Boat." We could cross an ocean in it. FULL STORY

Coming from across the Northeastern United States, deaf high school basketball players arrived at Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf ready for challenging competition and focused on winning the prize for the 2002 Eastern Schools for the Deaf Athletic Association (ESDAA) Division III Boys Basketball Tournament. Mill Neck Manor hosted the tournament from Feb. 15 - 17. FULL STORY