In 1997, Reverend Fred Jenkins purchased property located at 822 Prospect Ave., New Cassel, with plans to restore a building that had lain dormant and dilapidated since the early 1980s. The new building was to house Jenkins' congregation, St. Luke's Pentecostal Church, which, for 21 years, had been renting space at various local churches, while saving up to buy a church building of their own. FULL STORY

The Third Induction of the Nassau County Legislature at Nassau Community College Physical Fitness Center was packed as Legislator Judy Jacobs was sworn-in as the first Democratic and first woman Majority Leader and Legislator Peter Schmitt was sworn in as Minority Leader. FULL STORY

Carle Place High School, in the process of rebuilding its varsity golf team, competed this fall for the second consecutive year, after a five-year absence from interscholastic competition. FULL STORY