Great Neck

Liz Guard

What do you know about Long Island? The Great Gatsby? What you've seen in glossy magazine photos? Take it from me, FDNY battalion chief Dan Melia, that's not the real Long Island. I grew up in Plainview, a couple of...

TIM LEWISCLIFTON PARK, N.Y.Tim, a junior at Shenendehowa High, set national interscholastic records for the one-mile (6:35.2) and 1,600-meter (6:29.8) walks. The converted half-mile runner cut 14.4 seconds off the...

Maria Bozzuto, a senior at MIT, has skippered the women's sailing team to six regatta championships. In all six she has been the top-ranking sailor or low-point skipper and is the school's top female athlete. Maria...

J. Jerome Miller, 52, of Highland Park, Ill., a member of the U.S. Olympic water polo teams in 1936 and 1948, broke the Chicago Athletic Association's record (the nation's best) for miles swum in one year under its...