The Nassau County Council of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. has awarded four young Oyster Bay women Girl Scout's Gold Award. About five percent of Girl Scouts reach Girl Scouting's highest award, the Gold Award, which has been known by other names since 1916: The Golden Eaglet of Merit (1916-1919), The Golden Eagle (1919-1938), First Class (1938-1982) and, most recently, The Curved Bar (1940-1980). FULL STORY

The Oyster Bay Community Band announces its 2007 Summer Concert Series. As has been the tradition since 1950, when summer lawn concerts on East Main Street in front of Oyster Bay High School were inaugurated by Donald Luckenbill, there will be free evening concerts on three successive Wednesdays in July (11, 18 and 25) at 8 p.m. The band will also be participating in Neighborhood Night at Sagamore Hill on Tuesday, July 17. FULL STORY

One of Oyster Bay's newer residents, the Blue Ocean Institute, made a splashing debut at the recent Bay Day event, sponsored by the WaterFront Center. FULL STORY

If you have been visiting the Western Waterfront over the past months you have seen a lot of activity going on. The site is slowly evolving before the public's eyes. The DEC offered this brief rundown of some of the activity residents might start seeing at the Jacobson's Shipyard venue. FULL STORY