Suffolk County High School Seniors Awarded Berkeley College Scholarships (Long Island, N.Y.) Berkeley College President Dario A. Cortes, PhD, has announced that high school seniors from Suffolk County, NY, have received scholarships to attend Berkeley College. “We are proud to recognize the academic accomplishments of these high school seniors by awarding them scholarships to attend [...]

Portledge Alum Douglas Murray Selected by Ice Hockey Team Sweden for 2010 Winter Olympics (Long Island, N.Y.) Defenseman Douglas Murray, Portledge Class of 1999, is more than an NHL star; he is a member of Ice Hockey Team Sweden at the 2010 Winter Olympics. A native of Sweden, Murray attended Portledge School in his Junior [...]

Gemma Baehr, Lifelong Classical Musician And Portledge Alumna, Performs At The Manhattan School Of Music   (Long Island, N.Y.) Bayville resident and Portledge School alumna Gemma Baehr, Class of 2006, performed her Senior Recital in Greenfield Hall at the Manhattan School of Music on Sunday, February 7, 2010. Gemma, whose goal is a career in [...]

Property Tax Grievance Made Easy, Convenient, “Green” (Long Island, N.Y.) The “Statement of Taxes” you receive twice a year from your town shows the services you pay for and how your property tax is calculated.  Homeowners who believe they’re paying more than their fair share of taxes can challenge their property assessments, and potentially reduce [...]

Queens Helps Haiti Fund Raising Event Aboard Skyline Princess Cruise Ship (Long Island, N.Y.) Skyline cruises along with AG Media and Dish Du Jour Magazine are hosting a fund raising event in Flushing N.Y. for DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS – A not-for-profit international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose [...]

Group wants the town to rescind pay raises (Long Island, N.Y.) — Roll Back the Raises (RBR) Campaigners kept their word given at the February 2 rally to attend the Town of Hempstead Tuesday night meeting to “speak out” against the town’s raises.  The town did not formally place the concerns of the RBR Campaigners [...]

U.S. Olympian Sadam “World Kid” Ali Keeps Perfect Record Intact   (Brooklyn, N.Y.) – The beat rolls on for 2008 U.S. Olympian Sadam “World Kid” Ali, who kept his perfect pro record intact last Saturday night in Newark, winning a unanimous 4-round decision against fellow Brooklyn welterweight Jason Thompson (5-5-1, 4 KOs).   Ali (5-0, [...]

MSNBC HD Now Available for All FiOS TV Customers   (New York, N.Y.) – Verizon announced Thursday (Feb. 11) that the company has added MSNBC HD to its FiOS TV lineup.  Available on channel 603, MSNBC HD is now airing in all FiOS TV markets.   “Delivering the content our customers want in high definition [...]

Daniel Gale’s Sotheby’s International Realty Website Goes Multi-lingual; Adds other web enhancements (Huntington, N.Y.) Parlez-vous francais?  Habla espanol? Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty’s (DGSIR), one of the nation’s leading realtors, continues to find new ways to communicate with today’s homebuyers and sellers.  In addition to French and Spanish, visitors to the firm’s website can conduct [...]

The Crazy Donkey Presents Rock 4 Haiti Benefit – Friday February 26th at 5pm (Farmingdale, N.Y.) On Friday February 26th at 5pm, join some of the area’s bast original, cover and tribute bands including KISS NATION (KISS Tribute), Bad Medicine (Bon Jovi Tribute) and Jesse Kinch (from the Eddie Money musical “Two Tickets To Paradise”) [...]