The New York State Department of Education has released the Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) test scores for 2003. The tests measure student performance against standards that educators expect students to master in the fourth and eighth grades. FULL STORY

Though the sky was overcast on Nov. 7, the groundbreaking ceremony at Daly Elementary School couldn't have been sunnier. Parents, administrators, Principal Elaine Ajello, school board members, students, community members, and many others took part in the official ceremony to usher in the beginning of the school's renovation. FULL STORY

Welcome to winter - a little early this year. The severe weather cancelled many activities last weekend, including frostbiting. It was not the huge snow and cold weather that kept the sailors on shore on Sunday, December 7, as this is the weather for which frostbiting was named. But it was the high winds that present dangerous boating that prevented our hearty racers from enjoying what would otherwise have been a great sail on Manhasset Bay. At least the sun cooperated by the afternoon, and there was a lot of time to enjoy the winter wonderland that Mother Nature provided us. A quick look at the upcoming frostbite schedule, provided by Herb Schmidt, Winter Racing chairman, indicates a lot of sailing is in store in the near future. Regular Sunday afternoon racing will continue on December 14 and 21, but there will be no racing on Sunday, December 28. The next racing day is Thursday, January 1, starting with the Frostbite YC Past Commodore's Race at 1 p.m. Informal racing will commence immediately at the conclusion of the Commodore's Race. The New Year's Regatta will take place on Saturday and Sunday, January 3-4, with racing starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, followed by the Wassail Bowl and the Frostbite YC Annual Meeting. On Sunday, January 4, racing begins at 11 a.m., with the Award Ceremony immediately following, approximately 4 p.m. FULL STORY