Four adults, four teens and three children have been selected as winners of the fourth annual Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center's (45 Manetto Hill Road, Plainview) Poetry Contest. Gayl Teller, director of the JCC's Poetry Reading Series and its resident poet, presented the awards at a special ceremony held Sunday evening, June 4. FULL STORY

Legislative leaders and County Executive Thomas Gulotta came to terms this week on an agreement to make $52.5 million in cuts to the county's 2000 budget. FULL STORY

The third annual Vytra Kids Helping Kids 5K Run & Walk will take place on Sunday, June 18. It will begin at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School. FULL STORY

Long Island Track & Field, the newly established Long Island Association of USA Track & Field, is pleased to announce the scheduling of its inaugural Association Championship Track & Field Meet, to be held at the Mitchel Field Athletic Complex on Sunday, July 23, starting at 9 a.m. FULL STORY