Scott Eisberg, a senior at Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School won a contest sponsored by the Queen Latifah show. Scott was waiting on a standing-room-only line for a Hootie & the Blowfish concert, when producers from the Queen Latifah show approached him and others on line, asking for the number one Hootie fan. Entrants into the contest had to tell producers all they knew about the band, and why they should win. Thinking nothing of it, Scott went into the concert, and forgot about the incident. FULL STORY

Panos Mourdoukoutas, a resident of Plainview and an economics professor at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, co-authored a book entitled The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China. Mourdoukoutas explains in his book that Japanese and Chinese bankers operate more like accountants than bankers do. FULL STORY

The Long Island office of Grubb & Ellis New York, Inc. has joined the list of local companies who will be playing a role in the 13th annual Ho Ho Ho Holiday Run through the roads of Bethpage on Sunday morning, Dec. 17. FULL STORY