On a stage with a backdrop of blue water and bluer sky, Glen Cove Mayor Mary Ann Holzkamp stood at the city's new waterfront esplanade on Tuesday, Sept. 9 and before a crowd of 100 people accepted a prestigious 2003 Partnership Award from Coastal America, one of only nine such awards given nationwide. Dignitaries from the various agencies that make up the Coastal America consortium sat on the dais, including Randy A. Daniels, New York's Secretary of State; Roy Bernardi, assistant secretary, HUD; Brig. Gen. Merdith W.B. Temple, US Army Corps of Engineers; Anthony Cancro, Chief of Staff, EPA; Dr. Rick Spinrad, Assistant Administrator, NOAA's National Ocean Service and Virginia K. Tippie, director of Coastal America. FULL STORY

The second annual Run for Heroes takes place on Saturday, Sept.13 beginning at 9 a.m. at the Glenwood Landing Firehouse on Grove Street. The run has no registration fee, relying instead on the individual generosity of runners and others. The main objective of the run, which funds a scholarship at North Shore High School, is to honor the life and memory of FDNY Battalion Chief John Paolillo, a long-time resident of the school district who died in the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. FULL STORY

For the first time in the history of North Shore High School the football team began its season by going away to camp. FULL STORY

While most of us were still asleep on Saturday, Aug. 16, a steady stream of cars made their way down Landing Road at 4:45 a.m., heading to the Glen Cove Yacht Club dock. In the cars were 14 swimmers, support persons and 14 kayakers. They were the vanguard group headed to meet the transportation boats which would ferry them across Long Island Sound to Larchmont for the beginning of Swim Across America's (SAA) second Annual "Sound to the Cove - Swim to Fight Cancer." At 6:30 a.m. the group left the beach to begin the 10K (6.2 mile) swim back to Morgan Park. By 9:30 a.m., all 14 swimmers had arrived at the beach, welcomed by a crowd of more than 400 people. FULL STORY