Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Warriors tie the best-of-three series with a 3-2 win over the Bulldogs Thursday.
Two of the best baseball players in Nassau County battled it out for nine innings Thursday - both on the mound and in the batter's box. Wantagh's Greg Welch and Island Tree's Mike Jeannetti both tossed 9 inning complete games and hit home runs, with Welch and Wantagh coming out the victor Thursday, 3-2. With the win, Wantagh ties the best of three game series at a game a piece, after falling in the first game 3-1. "[Jeannetti's] a great pitcher, he put it all out there. I put it all out there," Welch said. "Fortunately, I came out with the win." Island Trees got on the board first when Jeannetti hit a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Kyle Nigro. That 1-0 lead would prove to be short-lived. On the very first pitch the next inning, Welch …
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East Meadow's doctor takes a closer look.
This week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a report on the long term use of biphosponates-the main class of drugs prescribed to treat osteoporosis. Sold under various brand names (i.e. Fosamax, Boniva and Reclast) these medications are given at the time of diagnosis, but whether therapy should be indefinite or time limited is not clear. Osteoporosis, or “thinning of the bones” is a major health threat to millions of Americans. The prevalence of disease increases with age, particularly in women who have gone thru the menopause and have lost the hormonal environment that helps maintain bone health during their first decades of life. The main threat from the condition is fracture of the bones-hip, vertebral (back bone) and …
Six local teachers have been named finalists in the radio station's contest.
The radio station KJOY 98.3 has named an Island Trees teacher a finalist in this month's "Teacher of the Month." Angel Mitchell, a third grade teacher at Stokes Elementary School in Levittown, is one of six local teachers who were named finalists in the contest.The other five teachers are from Valley Stream, Cedahurst, Plainview, Lindenhurst and East Rockaway. The winner receives a $500 Visa gift card and a $100 gift card to Salon Nouveau in Bellmore. Vote now for Angel at the KJOY website.
The bowling alley is holding the event on Friday.
South Levittown Lanes will hold "Senior Appreciation Day" on Friday, May 18 with coffee and registration starting at 9:30 a.m. and bowling beginning at 9:45 a.m. and running to 12 p.m. The bowling alley is opening their doors to the senior community - seniors will enjoy three games of bowling for free. Door prizes will be awarded and light refreshments will be served. The event is co-sponsored by Legislator Dennis Dunne Sr. and Legislator Joe Belesi. South Levittown Lanes is located at 56 Tanners Ln. in Levittown. Call 516-731-5700 for more info. Do you know about an important upcoming deadline? Share it in the comments below and we'll consider including it in our next "Last Chance."
Bulldogs can clinch trip to semifinals with win Thursday against Warriors.
With Island Trees’ two top pitchers Mike Jeannetti and Matt Bowen unable to work in game one of Wednesday’s Nassau County Class A quarterfinal series at Wantagh, Mike Ahrens knew he needed to step up his game. The senior righty did just that tossing a complete-game seven-hitter in a 3-1 win that puts the Bulldogs one win away from the semifinals. “It was a battle all the way through,” said Ahrens, who was not in the Island Trees starting rotation at the beginning of the season. Ahrens was penciled in as the starter after Jeannetti and Bowen racked up plenty of innings in the Bulldogs' playoff loss at top-seeded Clarke Saturday and its victory over crosstown Levittown rival Division in an elimination game Monday. Wantagh avoided having to …
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A look at this weekend's open houses.
Looking to buy a home in Levittown? Why not attend an open house to begin your search? Click through the image gallery to see a sampling of homes in town that are currently up for sale. Prices and house info are listed under each picture. Listings are provided by AOL Real Estate. If you are a homeowner or real estate broker and want a home included in House Hunt, you can log into Patch and add it to the gallery. Here are our featured homes for this weekend: Are these homes fairly priced? Tell us in the comments.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Vote now for your favorite place to get catering.
On Monday, we asked Levittown Patch readers what the best place to get catered food was in town. While we came up with an initial list, thanks to readers we now have a couple of more nominations. Readers' Choice winners are all up to you, so it's important not only to vote below, but also be sure to share this contest with your friends on Facebook and Twitter! Voting begins now and closes Friday at 9 a.m. We've added a list of contestants here, so you can also click through to our Directory Listings and leave a comment/review. In the event of a tie, the business with the most reviews will have the edge.
Schools celebrate their favorite poets during "Poem in Your Pocket Day."
In recognition of May as National Poetry Month, students throughout the Levittown School District celebrated their favorite poets during “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” At Gardiners Avenue Elementary School, Hempstead Town Councilman Gary Hudes, Levittown Superintendent of Schools Dr. James Grossane, Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance Mark Flower, and many other guests read poetry to various classes during the day. Grossane reminded the students in Ms. Poulos’s class that poets often place meaning in their works. “Poems can be fun and silly, but sometimes they have a message or a moral,” he told the students as he read poetry from Jeff Moss’s The Butterfly Jar. Flower read “Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog” to first-grade students in …
A look at the history of Levittown.
Throughout the post-WWII years, it became something of a truism that the average Levittowner was from somewhere else. Brooklyn and the Bronx had been the more common, albeit hardly exclusive, points-of-origin. Elliot Willensky's nostalgic When Brooklyn Was the World ends with a fellow from 1950's Canarsie, Flatbush, or Park Slope packing up the car to go check out the new homes "out on the Island" as they used to say. "For most of us", Willensky observed, "that's how Brooklyn ended". How long Levittown remained peopled by folks from away is difficult to say because the Baby Boom quickly created a native-born population. Indeed, between 1947 and 1957, St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church celebrated an astonishing 7,345 baptisms. Very few …
Steven Nicastro
12:09 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Hi Morgan, We've added Fred's Deli - thanks for the nominee, it's been added to the poll. Steve more ›