County Executive Thomas Suozzi addressed a sometimes contentious group of over 200 Sands Point residents who came together in Hempstead House to discuss a proposal put forth by the Village and the County to increase the number of catered events permitted in that building. Hempstead House, which was built in 1912 and is located in the Sands Point preserve, has fallen into disrepair. Because of the County's severe financial condition, Suozzi said that the only way that badly needed repairs and renovation can be performed is by generating additional revenues. "However," he said, "we will not do it if the community doesn't want it. It's your community; if you don't want us to do this, we will move on to deal with the other 5,000 problems that we've got in this County, and this beautiful building will deteriorate. It's up to you." FULL STORY

The Schreiber High School Sailing Program got off to a good start on Tuesday, April 29 with a chalk talk at the high school moderated by local sailor Jerry Morea. This first session was planned to be an "on-the-water" lesson, but because of inclement weather, the 16 students remained on land and learned about navigation. FULL STORY

Coaches Jeff and John Froccaro had an impressive season opener when their sixth grade boys PYA lacrosse team beat Hicksville 4-3. Hicksville, known to be a lacrosse powerhouse team, wasted no time in getting off their first goal despite the defensive efforts of Michael Brown, Michael McCabe, Jimmy Reardon, and Chris Wands. Even with the solid offense of Doug Bosswick and Aaron Lee, Port remained scoreless at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter Hicksville kept up the pressure scoring a goal early on when Jeff Froccaro, assisted by Matt Quirk fired one in to bring Port within one goal. Hicksville answered back but Port was relentless. Franco Signorini, Jess Block, Sean McNamara and Also Mazzaferro were all over the field providing a solid defense enabling Timmy Pond, assisted by Jeff Froccaro to fire a rocket and bring the game to within yet another one goal reach. FULL STORY