"We need tort reform and we need it now," Nassau County Medical Society President Dr. Vincent Geraci shouted from a microphone during a rally at Eisenhower Park May 20. "For too long, medicine has been burdened with the specter of malpractice. For too long, society has been deceived by this broken system. For too long has a small segment of the legal profession lined their pockets at the expense of those who suffer unfortunate outcomes." FULL STORY

Working through the Property Owners' Associations (POAs) and the Chamber of Commerce, the village board's P-Zone Committee has invited residents and interested parties to attend a forum for a discussion by the village's planning consultant and special legal counsel on their recommendations with regard to rezoning the Public "P" Zone within the village. FULL STORY

The year was 1935. President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the Social Security Act, Jim Braddock defeated Maxie Baer for the heavyweight boxing title, Mutiny on the Bounty won the Academy Award for best picture, Fibber McGee and Molly were the rage of the radio waves, and gasoline was 17 cents a gallon. That same year Garden City and Manhasset would partake in a high school lacrosse game, the beginning of what has become one of the country's oldest lacrosse rivalries and traditions. FULL STORY

The Garden City Recreation Department will be conducting a youth soccer camp for boys and girls who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City during the weeks of Aug. 4 through 7, and Aug. 11 through 14, at Community Park (behind the pool). FULL STORY