The Westbury Business Improvement District and its Architectural Review Board unveiled their plan to upgrade and revitalize Westbury's core business district before a packed room of interested merchants and property owners last week at the Westbury Recreation Center. FULL STORY

The Commissioner of the Town of North Hempstead Department of Public Safety presented his 1999 public safety initiatives at a meeting of the New Cassel Improvement Committee last week. Civic leaders are cautiously hopeful that his plans will have a long-lasting positive effect on the community. FULL STORY

Westbury High School will play host to the Sixth Annual Reid-Robeson High School Basketball Classic, which will be held in the school's gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 6. FULL STORY

Junior honor roll students at W.T. Clarke High School, William Rowehl and Daniel Selzer, both of Westbury, have been selected to participate in the inaugural United States Scholar-Athlete Games, next June. Selzer will partake in the tennis component and Rowehl will partake in the golf component of the games. FULL STORY