In July, 1984, 6-month old Jamie Fatina Lee moved with her 6-year-old brother, mother and father into a one bedroom apartment on Brush Hollow Road in Westbury. Because the electricity in the apartment had not been turned on by LILCO, the family prepared their meals on a backyard grill. Two nights later, Jamie Lee died in a fire that gutted the Brush Hollow residence, displacing at least three families that lived there, as reported by The Westbury Times, an Anton Community Newspaper publication. FULL STORY

New York State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), the Senate's representative and Long Island's lone voice on the four-person Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) Capital Program Review Board, began a grassroots "riders campaign" to save Long Island Rail Road service scheduled for elimination and prevent fare increases proposed by the MTA in its July Financial Plan for 2005-2008. FULL STORY

Carey High School Icehawks hockey tryouts will be held at Iceland Ice Rink on Hillside Avenue in New Hyde Park on: FULL STORY