Old Westbury News

Diocese of Rockville Centre filed suit against the Village of Old Westbury, L.I., to drop its demands and end a 13-year delay blocking the Queen of Peace Cemetery.

The diocese purchased the property, a former horse farm, hoping to turn it into an extension of Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury, which it says is near capacity.

Jericho Library was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by three men who fled in a sport utility vehicle, police said.

Eight men in prison-issued uniforms sat around a table in the visiting room at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining on Friday and claimed a portion of responsibility for the July 1999, shooting that left then 19-year-old Amory Sepulveda paralyzed from the waist down.

It was a red-hot discussion in the classroom and I was in the center of it! The course was a oePolitics and the Mediaa and the SUNY Old Westbury students were a cross-section of the New York urbanA area.

A developer and golf enthusiast bought the North Shore Country Club for $12.5M. where view large map Developer Don Zucker has bought the troubled North Shore Country Club in Glen Head from members in a $12.5-million deal that would preserve the golf course and add revenue-making ventures, including a "world-class spa." Zucker said he beat out ...

The Visiting Nurse Service of New York hosted its annual diabetes workshop, 'Bridging the Gap: Caring for Minority Populations With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus,' Oct.

I would like to thank the entire communities of Carle Place, Old Westbury, the hamlet of New Cassel and the Incorporated Village of Westbury for their continued support and commitment to the maintenance of the quality of life we all share as a district.

Private colleges are expensive. Add to that room and board and the price tag balloons.

Anthony Crocitto has been named the head womena s basketball coach for the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury.

Chamber Players International's Musical Cuisine series will present the second concert and brunch of its 2009-2010 season, celebrating Beethoven's masterworks for violin and piano, on Sunday, November 8 at 12 noon at the DeSeversky Conference Center on the campus of New York Institute of Technology, Northern Boulevard in Old Westbury.

Xlibris, the leading print-on-demand self-publishing services company, announces today the release of The Aged Are People, Too, a new book dealing with aging authored by Kehinde Ikuomenisan.

DJ Nickodemus of Bay Shore will spin Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 at S.O.B.'s during the CMJ Music Marathon.

The BOE announced at its Oct. 6 meeting that after much consideration William Hohauser will replace BOE member Sue Sturman who left her position in August.

Alan Cagan ties a napkin as a bib on his grandaughter, Taylor Amitrano, 2, during dinner at Carmella's Restaurant in Seaford.

Before your trip, consult the Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau . The organization's website offers coupons for discounts on area attractions.

O When Old Westbury Gardens opened to the public 50 years ago, gas was 25 cents a gallon.

David A. Paterson ordered this week to help deal with an estimated $2.1 billion state budget deficit, local and SUNY officials said.

Don Eversoll, managing partner of Timber Ridge Homes, Wilbur Breslin, president of Breslin Realty, Fred Colin, president of Colin Management, and Frank Castagna, president of Castagna Realty, say the commercial real estate industry has not yet hit bottom.

Victoria Gotti leaves the trial of John Gotti Jr. in Manhattan on Wednesday. Victoria Gotti exploded in indignation outside a Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday after John Alite, a former best buddy and top lieutenant of her brother John "Junior" Gotti, testified that she had sought his comfort and the two of them had "feelings" for each other ...