Thanks for your support To the Editor: We would like to thank the community for supporting the 2010-11 Rockville Centre school budget. A record number of residents made it to the polls to … more

Jenna Mantell, left, Jenna Talesnick and Emily Wiener collected over 200 dresses to donate to the Prom Dress event sponsored by the Long Island Volunteer Center on May 8 at the Hagedorn Family Resource Center in Hempstead. more

The children of Covert Elementary School recently participated in “Project Linus” under the direction of Susan Buckheit and Paula Lake, creating “no sew” fleece blankets to donate to the Winthrop Pediatric Cancer Unit. more

Over 700 job seekers from areas near and far attended the first ever Career Fair sponsored by Sen. Dean Skelos in the gymnasium of the Recreation Center on May 21. more

Just in time for Memorial Day, the Rockville Centre Home Makers completed their annual spring project — producing handmade lap robes — for veterans. more

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law. more

Competitions among Long Island’s fire departments go back as long as the volunteer companies have existed — 100 years of tradition. One of the most common forms of that competition is an Old Fashioned Drill where teams compete in eight firematic events involving the speed with which they can throw up a ladder, the speed they can climb that ladder, run down a course, stretch a hose line, trip a target with a hose stream, fill a barrel at the top of the arch, hoist buckets up a ladder and other related maneuvers that can and do occur at real fires. One of the best at these competitions over the last 10 years has been Rockville Centre’s own Woodlanders of the Woodland Engine Company No. 4. more

This year’s Visitors’ Day at Hewitt Elementary School drew rave reviews. more

On Monday night, Molloy College conferred degrees upon members of the class of 2010, the college's 52nd graduating class, during a ceremony at Nassau Coliseum. In addition to the 895 students who … more

Fran Klier is a self-taught chef from Rockville Centre. She runs a modest-sized catering business that she started when she left her former position as executive chef at Temple B’nai Sholom. After some pressure from her family, she decided to attend an open casting call for the reality show “Hell’s Kitchen” that was being held in New York City in October 2008. “So I’m lined up on the street in the middle of October,” said Klier, “and the next thing I know, my life is just turned inside-out.” more