Memorial Day is a national holiday, but it is also a highly personal one. To Vietnam veteran and American Legion Post 509 Commander Bob Click, it is a somber day "to remember friends, relatives, and comrades who lost their lives in the service and the 91 Port Washington residents who made the supreme sacrifice." To veteran Emil Schaefer, who served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, it is remembering the immense human casualties of Normandy, and still wincing in pain at the recollections. To 40 year Port resident Karol Szaja who later served in the 338th Military Intelligence Unit, it is 10 AM, April 10, 1945, when American Army troops, "like angels sent from heaven," liberated the German labor camp in which he toiled. FULL STORY

Two Schreiber High School ninth graders were seriously injured on the evening of June 4, when a gas can or cannister thrown into a bonfire exploded during a birthday party on the beach property of a Sands Point home, police and fire officials report. FULL STORY

On May 22, as part of the HarborFest, local third-grade students, their parents, friends and teachers, gathered at Mill Pond for the third annual Model Boat Regatta. This event was held two years at Christopher Morley Park, but moved to Mill Pond this year to be part of HarborFest. Ed Lawrence and Mike Block organized the event, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and local merchants. Angelo de Magistris was the finish judge. FULL STORY

Who wrote the script for this one? The second seeded Port Washington Vikings go into the quarter-finals of the Nassau County Lacrosse championships with a 14 and 2 record, ranked 6th in New York State, and barely pull out an overtime victory against seventh seeded Syosset. Was Syosset playing over their heads? Were the Vikes taking this team too lightly? Or maybe, this is Nassau County Class "A" lacrosse playoffs. The "Turf" is where records get tossed and anything can happen. FULL STORY