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April 23rd, 2008
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Joe Votinelli, of the Massapequa Soccer Club, was recently presented with the Sportsmanship Coach of the Year from the Long Island Junior Soccer League. He was nominated for the award due to the submission of the winning essay which nominated Votinelli and submitted by Jamie Macchia, a player on hi... More...

After years of legal negotiations, South Farmingdale and Massapequa water districts have reached a settlement over the Liberty Superfund site. More...

A modernization project on the largest piece of vacant land at Republic Airport will be the subject of an environmental meeting April 30. The project will include construction of 9 buildings, relocation of two runways, lighting, guidance systems and pavement markings at the airport. More...

Jonathan Sole from Massapequa and a student at Plainedge High School, was chosen to compete for a $50,000 college scholarship at the 2007-08 Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the College Board. More...
St. William the Abbot students during Catholic Schools Week. The students celebrated the week with Hilarious Hat Day by proudly displaying the hats and the dioramas they made of the alter at the church in preparation for their first Holy Communion Day in May of this year. More...
Members of the Westminster Kennel Club spent 24 years in Babylon. They didn't hold their famous dog shows here. Instead, these moneyed men bred and ran their prized pups, and also hosted pigeon shoots for members, clubhouse. Sensation, the Pointer immortalized in the Westminster logo, and his ken... More...
The following are a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week: THURSDAY, April 24 •Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting: 8 p.m., Simpson Methodist Church, 30 Locust Ave., Amityville. Open meeting. For info., call 24-hr. hotline, 669-1124. More...
Longtime Massapequa resident and church volunteer, Bernadette Reynolds, died March 12, 2008. She was 74 years old. She emigrated from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Ireland to Manhattan and met her future husband, Henry, when they both worked at Empire Blue Cross. More...
One can only imagine the anguish of the parents of 18-year-old Columbia South Carolina student Ryan Schallenberger went through in making the gutwrenching decision to turn their son in to police. The angry young man had ten pounds of ammonium nitrate at his home, and planned to make several bombs ... More...