A fun weekend of scouting events at Old Bethpage Restoration Village ended shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday with the shooting of 13-year old Stephen Schuster, a Levittown Boy Scout. FULL STORY

Plainview/Old Bethpage Letter Carriers will collect nonperishable food donations left by mailboxes along their routes as they deliver the mail on Saturday, May 9, to help stock local food banks for the needy, Sandy Jenkins Letter Carrier Plainview said. FULL STORY

Nassau County Legislator Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury) took part in the dedication of the new Goodwill Games Swimming and Diving Center at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Thursday, along with County Executive Thomas Gulotta and members of the Nassau County Legislature. FULL STORY

Junior second baseman Tom Wigand, a Plainview resident, ended the 1998 regular season on fire for the C.W. Post baseball team. Wigand hit 7 for 14 with two home runs, two triples and eight RBI as the Pioneers took three out of four from neighboring New York Tech on Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3. FULL STORY