What public officials are characterizing as an "honest mistake" in determining the equalization rate for properties throughout Nassau has thrown local school districts into a state of absolute uncertainty about their own tax levy for this coming year. FULL STORY

Six months after completing the $195 million purchase of the New York Islanders ¬ and announcing that they'd need a new facility for the team to play in to make their investment profitable ¬ sources say the principals of New York Sports Ventures are now frustrated by the slowness of negotiations with the county pertaining to that development plan. FULL STORY

Coaches' Awards for Most Valuable Player were presented to the following students at North High School: badminton, Christine Wong; baseball, James Colasanto; basketball, Ken Erker, Carrie Senzel; bowling, Vito Genova; cross country, George Zervoudis; football, Franco Maffettone; soccer, Michael Scarola, Dina Cali; softball, Andrea Giarraffa; track, Dan Parella; volleyball, Jeffrey Plett, Laura Lopez; wrestling, Salvatore Cardillo. FULL STORY

After 36 weeks of trying to knock each other's block off, bowlingwise, the Floral Park Knights of Columbus keglers got together on Friday evening, June 19, at the New Hyde Park Inn and, in true brotherly fashion, had a "large evening" recounting all the great happenings of the past season, the most explosive and pro-productive ever recorded in the over-a-half-century-old league! FULL STORY