Hats Off to the Class of 2000!/ Edward Elkowitz Challenges Congressman Ackerman/ The Senate Race: Is Rick Lazio What the Doctor Ordered/ Forum: Saving Long Island Sound/ School Board Members Upbeat/ BOE Approves Raises for Superintendent and Administrators: Larry Blake, Carol Gannon, and Other Key Educators Leaving Posts/ In Memoriam: Karl V. Anton, Jr./ New Leadership for the BOE: Richard Sussman Elected President, Bob Ferro Is Vice President/ Craig Johnson Hosts West Nile Virus Forum/ Sandy Hollow Associates Revises Plans for 41 Acres/ Gambol 2000: (Magical Mystery) Tour de Force/ Locals Support People Who Live Without Sight and Sound/ Long Awaited Restoration of Baxter Pond Park Started/ M'Haven Defaults on Contract to Purchase Parkland/ New York State Cancer Maps: What They Show for Port Washington and Its Neighbors/ Village Club Opens Additional Nine Holes/ Weber Middle School Honored/ Melissa Brewster Is Bogart Scholar/ A More Beautiful Port Washington Assistant Superintendent for Business Retires From Port School District/ BOE Contemplates 7 Facilities Options: Will Ask Community for Their Preferences/"Target Pests, Not People" Say Local Breast Cancer Activists/ Port North Examines Sandy Hollow Associates Application for 41 Acres/ Business Improvement District Unveils Streetscape Improvement Plan/ Residents Become Acquainted With Helen Keller National Center/ It Was a Very Good Year Says Balboni/ Landscapers Question Flower Hill Code/ Take a Step Back in Time to the Fabulous '50s/ Port Bids Farewell to Longtime Weber Math Teacher and Chair Don Voss/ High School Seniors Exhibit Their Works of Art at an Impressive Show/ New PW Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors/ School Board Looks to the Fall/ AARP Bus Visits Funday Monday/ Public Faces-Private Lives: Jose and Juan Hernandez, and Gilly and Carlos Quinteros/ Call for Neighborhood Watch/ Dead Crow Found in Port Backyard/ BOE Meeting: And Then There Were Five (Facilities Options)/ Electrical Fire on Manorhaven Blvd./ Senate Candidate Hillary Clinton Visits and Discusses LI Issues/ Uniting Against Domestic Violence: TONH Thanks Advocates/ Use of Town Parks an Issue for North Hempstead Residents/ School Custodian Honored by Fire Commission and Board of Ed./ United States Senator Schumer Comes to Long Island/ Josh Bloom and Lindsay Weinstein Win National History Day Competition/ 51st Town Dock Snapper Derby Sept. 9/ What Happened on Bayview Ave. Last Week?/ Locals Meet Hillary Clinton/ Public Faces-Private Lives: Jeffrey Wands/ The Superintendent's Back to School Message/ Flower Hill Town Meeting/ Port Girl Dies in Crash in Brazil Village of Sands Point Prevails in Thayer Road Litigation/ TONH Hearing on Environmental Bond Issue/ A Visit With School Resource Office Tony Guzzello/The "Glam Life" Expands at Americana/ Landmark to Honor Ed and Jinny Pratt at Fifth Anniversary Gala/ PW Schools Open With 4,424 Students/ School Board Divided on Holding Community Forums/ Reassessment Is Under Way/ Port's Remarkable Ruth D. Bogen Dies at 84/ Seven More Crows Found Infected With West Nile Virus in Massapequa: One in Manorhaven Park/ Update on Port North's 41 Acres and Lewis Oil/Delco Site/ Reopening Salem School Seems a Certainty: Number of HS Classrooms Debated by BOE/ Manhasset Bay Gold Cup Poker Run/ PW Fire Department Sponsors New Explorer Post/ The 2000 Pride in Port Committee/ Town Issues Debt Management Plan/ WWII Medal of Honor Recipient, Who Spent Youth in Port, Dies/ New Baxter Estates Roads Are On-Hold 'Til Spring/ School Board Narrows Options to Three/ Baxter Pond Renovation Waiting for Papers/ Main Street Market Changes Hands/ Flower Hill Village Meeting/ Board Votes to Ban a Book, Then Rescinds Vote and Awaits Review/ Votes Will Decide on Town Environmental Legacy Fund We're Celebrating Pride in Port This Saturday!/ National Merit Scholarships Semifinalists/ PWFD Is PIP Parade Grand Marshal/ Democratic Leader (Tom DiNapoli) Meets With Local Press/ Father Dan's Installation Coincides With St. Peter's Centennial/ LI Law Firms Make it Easier to Check Nannies' Backgrounds/ Jacobs Meets With General Council/ Assistant Superintendent for Business Joins Port Washington School District/ Three Facilities Options Costed Out by Architect/ Barbara Honored by Pride in Port/ Residents Find Book Decision Objection and Troubling/ County Executive Gulotta Tells it His Way/ Lazio Speak With Officials From Across Nassau/ DiNapoli and Balboni to Help Associations Get Tax Break/ Board Chooses Facilities Option: Will Be Five K-5s, One Middle School at Weber, and One High School for (an estimated) $43.3 Million/ School District's Architect Resigns/ 12th Annual Pride in Port Gets Better by the Dozen/ Democrats Step Up to the Plate/ Supervisor May Newburger Presents Town Budget/ Sands Point Board Meeting/ Port Washington North Meeting/ Barbara Hausman Leaves Helen Keller National Center/ Baxter Pond Renovation Hits Snag/ Promising Medical Advances in the Fight Against Breast Cancer/ Port Receives Awards From AAA/ Manorhaven Board Meeting/ Civic Leader Laurence Rose Dies/ Hillary Clinton Visits Port/ Jon Brooks (State Senatorial Candidate) Talks to the Editors Bickering Among School Board Dominates Oct. 17 Meeting/ PWPD Announces for 2001: Rate Per Hundred Decreased 4.3 Cents/ Port Catches Subway Series Fever/ Democrats Pass Budget County Executive Gulotta Calls Unacceptable/ Candidates for State Senate Sum Up/ Public Faces: Private Lives---Mel the Ice Cream Man/ Clean Auditor's Report on District, But Concern Over Fund Balance/ Library Construction Update/ Police District Contemplates Eight-Hour Versus Twelve-Hour Tours of Duty/ Nassau County Executive Vetoes Legislature's Budget/ Donatelli Elected General Council of Homeowners Association President/ Hitting Too Close to Home: Talking About Courtship Violence With Sons and Daughters/ Port's Judy Aiges, CSW: True Grit/ Port Pays Tribute to Veterans/ Balboni Returned to NYS Senate/ DiNapoli Returned by Strong Mandate/ After Twenty Years in Port the Iannelli Family Moves on/ RFAMBPW Holds Meeting/ Republican Legislature Decides Not to Override County Executive's Vetoes/ $15 Million Environmental Legacy Fund Approved in North Hempstead/ Port North Holds Public Hearing on Lewis Oil Rezoning/ Short Term Facilities Needs Discussed at the BOE Meeting: Board on Verge of Hiring New Architect/ Tenth Victory for Ackerman!/ Public Faces-Private Lives: Chabad's Rabbi Paltiel/ Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Awarded Tenure/ Town of North Hempstead Has Budget/ Board Sets Fees for Village Club/ Flower Hill Adopts Revised Code/ Good Health Leads to Formation of "The Gezunters" Men's Group/ Car Accident Claims Life of Young Man/ How Did Port Residents Vote This Year?/ The Holiday Season Lights Up in Port/ Schreiber High School Memorial Park Honored by Town of North Hempstead/ Last Chapter at the Landfill Begins/ PWFD New Explorer Post Expands Two Candidates Seek Office of Police Commissioner: Candidates Biographies---Robert Persons and Barry Loeb/ Suozzi Seeking County Executive Post/ Nassau County Officials Agree on Budget, Four-Year Plan/ BOE to Hold Public Meetings on Proposed Bond Referendum/ Port Trots on Thanksgiving/ Port Schools Awarded State Honors for Excellence in Foreign Languages/ School District Unveils New Student Equity Plan/ Good News for Incorporated Villages/ Lights, Trees, Santa!: Tree Lighting Kicks Off Season/ Schreiber HS Re-accredited/ Acts of Kindness Are the Best Portion of a Life (Barbara Faticone, Amy Bass, Debbie Miraglia/ O'Shea Unveils Reassessment Web Site "www.mynassauproperty.com"/ Publication of Book About Sands Point History Announced/ Port Children's Center Auction: 23...and Going Strong/ PORTCAP's Patti Wood Receives Community Caretaker Award/ Oil Leak on Middle Neck Road/ TONH Adopts Five Year Capital and Highway Plans/ Police Commissioner Persons Re-elected in Landslide/ Ed Kulich's Party for Special Children a Great Success/ Holidays Made More Special by Port Gal/ William J. Navin: Attorney, Teacher, Writer, Coach, Friend/ Update on Funds for Bakst and McCloskey/ Thomas DiNapoli Edits New Book/ Middle School Design Is Unveiled/ Quality of Life Issues Focus of Sands Point Meeting/ Public Faces-Private Lives: Jean Ritchie