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The Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (LICADD) is pleased to announce that its 26th Annual Angel Ball Celebrating the Stars of Recovery, held Thursday, May 2, at the Garden City Hotel, raised over $290,000 to support LICADD’s alcohol and drug prevention and intervention programs for children and families. 

The literary arts meet the visual arts on Saturday, June 2 at 3 p.m. when Nassau County Museum of Art hosts six of Long Island’s most prominent writers in an afternoon of original readings from their works. Living, Out Loud: Writers Riff on Love, Sweat & Fears features speechwriter and essayist Robin E. Bernstein; two-time New York Emmy Award-winning essayist Iyna Bort Caruso; author and contributor to Newsday and The New York Times Claudia Cryvatz Copquin; Friars Club historian/head writer and essayist Barry Dougherty; essayist and NY Times “Modern Love” writer Paula Ganzi Licata and author and essayist Ellen Meister. 

Earlier this year, 13-year-old Elizabeth Petitfrere didn’t even know what a tumor was. All she knew what that on Jan. 23, the breathing difficulties she had been experiencing became so intense that she called 911. The only thing she remembers is staying in Cohen Children’s Medical Center for four days – she has no memory of the seriousness of the situation. 

The Great Gatsby, Nassau County Museum of Art’s 2013 Museum Ball, celebrates the glamorous Gold Coast era immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. 

The Village of Plandome is typically considered a quiet neighborhood by those who live there, but residents say lately the area feels more like a “Fast and the Furious” movie.

Residents of the Manhasset School District district will head to the polls to cast ballots on Tuesday, May 21, voting on a $89,296,198 school budget for the 2013-14 academic year that will require a 60 percent supermajority to pass and school board seats for incumbents Regina Rule and Craig Anderson who are running unopposed.

Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., has awarded scholarships to four Long Island veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and are now enrolled at Nassau Community College including one from New Hyde Park.

Temple Tikvah’s Sisterhood’s Golden Age luncheon was a five-star experience for the more than 100 guests who came from nursing and veterans’ homes and low-income residences. A special thank you was given to the event’s musical guests - Cantor Guy Bonne, Jay Beber, and the children from Harbor Day Care- for their performance of songs. 

Residents of the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District will head to the polls to cast ballots on Tuesday, May 21, voting on both the elementary school and Sewanhaka Central High School budget, three uncontested trustee races and a fourth school board race pitting educator Jennifer Kerrane and Town of North Hempstead engineer James Reddan.

Rob Villegas is the senior tennis instructor at the Parkwood Tennis Center.  

The Great Neck South High School Spring Concert I, featuring instrumental groups: Jazz Band, Pops Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Concert Band, and vocal groups: Barbershop and Soul Sisters, will take place on Thursday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the school auditorium, 341 Lakeville Road.

On June 10, Emily (Emi) Schaufeld, a resident of Thomaston, will complete her 13th year of perfect attendance in the Great Neck Public School District.  

Fourteen students from Great Neck North Middle and North High Schools won top awards at the Al Kalfus Long Island Math Fair, held at Hofstra University. Contestants were required to do extensive research and write papers on an advanced mathematical topic, and then persuasively defend and explain their research before a panel of judges.

Village of Russell Gardens Mayor Steven Kirschner said last week the village is making headway on the problem of unregistered and illegally parked cars in front of two car dealerships on Northern Boulevard.

A Roslyn Heights woman and a Manhasset woman were arrested in Great Neck last Wednesday after assaulting the Roslyn Heights woman’s boyfriend and stealing $500 worth of property from his home, police officials said.

Great Neck residents Jeff Morosoff and Robert Zimmerman will be honored at the Public Relations Professionals of Long Island at its 23rd annual awards gala on May 14. 

Residents of the Great Neck Public School district will head to the polls to cast ballots on Tuesday, May 21, voting on the school budget, the library budget and a school board seat being sought by incumbent Trustee Monique Bloom in an uncontested race.

“The Great Gatsby” opened the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 10. 

A suburban town consists of homes and a main street. The homes have families and main street has stores. If there is no main street to go to then families stay hidden away in their homes and tend to become isolated and even distrustful of their neighbors. This is what has happened in most suburban towns in America.  

In the face of cancelled air shows and the downgrading of New York City’s Fleet Week, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced last week that the American G.I. will be forever honored on Long Island through the creation of the Museum of American Armor to be built at Old Bethpage Village Restoration at 1303 Round Swamp Road in Old Bethpage thanks, in part, to a $1 million gift from Lawrence Kadish.

The Mineola Board of Education met briefly last Thursday night for the final formal hearing on its proposed $86.14 million budget before district voters go to the polls on May 21.

State legislators and local public officials reacted with cautious optimism this week to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announced plans to revamp the Long Island Power Authority by supplanting LIPA’s role in its daily operations with Public Service & Gas Co. of New Jersey.

Residents of the East Williston School District will head to the polls to cast ballots on Tuesday, May 21 voting on a proposed $54.38 million budget for 2013-14, a budget proposition to establish a capital projects fund and two school board seats being sought by incumbent trustees David Keefe and Barbara Slone in an uncontested race,

The East Williston Village Board is opting to await the outcome of a variance application tied to a possible sale before it considers demolishing a house at 8 Sumter St. whose condition has the been source of repeated resident complaints.