Joan Williams was very pleased with the success of the Friends of the Bay fundraiser held at the home of Frances Storrs on Jan. 1. The gala evening started with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres for the 96 guests attending. FULL STORY

Raynham Hall Museum director Sarah Abruzzi is looking forward to taking the Oyster Bay house museum to the next level. Each new director at Raynham Hall Museum brings their own special talent. The museum's past director, Andrew Batten, had been an enactor at the Gettysburg Museum in Pennsylvania and he enriched the museum with military lore and musical performances with his quartet Sampawams Creek. FULL STORY

Young people in the Oyster Bay-East Norwich area have lost a good friend. Thomas Robinson died suddenly at the age of 50 on Jan. 15, 2003. At his wake at the Francis P. DeVine Funeral Home, among the many floral tributes were three that demonstrated his life. There was a basketball in orange flowers from Andrew and Sharon Woodstock and a large tennis racket in white and yellow flowers from the members of the Boys and Girls Tennis Teams, the Georgacopoulos family, Anthony Brown and the Pinella family. A colorful floral arrangement said "70" and was from his 1970 graduating class of Oyster Bay High School. FULL STORY

The newly chartered Al Leiter Little League of Oyster Bay will be holding its second and third free clinics on Saturday, Jan. 25, and Saturday, Feb. 1, from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Oyster Bay High School gymnasium. Registration will also be held for the Spring League to be played in Oyster Bay, which will give players the opportunity for higher level competition in state and regional tournaments as well as in the Little League World Series in world famous Williamsport, PA. FULL STORY