Mastic Beach Village Meeting

The next meeting regarding Mastic Beach as an incorporated village will be held on February 2 at 7 PM at the Mastic Beach Fire Department. Be there for your community!

Inaugural Parties In The Mastic Beach Area

Besides your friends, family and local organizations, several other people and places in the local area will have inaugural parties to welcome Barack Obama as President. To find out the location of parties for this historical event on January 20, 2009, visit Inaugural Bash.

Here's to change both nationally and right here in Mastic Beach!

Christmas Tree Lighting Pics from MBPOA

I recently wrote about the Mastic Beach Property Owners Association tree lighting and how much we enjoyed ourselves. I could not post the pics because my computer was dying a slow death at the time. It ceremoniously went down for the holidays, forcing me to max out my credit card to get a new one. (A writer without a computer is like a taxi driver without a car - without the equipment, you're not making any money.)

Anyway, I am finally getting to put up a pic of the Christmas tree. Hope your holidays were happy and the new year is prosperous for you and yours!

(Reminder: Tonight is the special Board of Ed meeting about the H.S. shooting incident.)

Another Note:

With the holidays, I've been "out of the loop" (never mind we had 2 computers break down, a cell phone and hubby's truck in 2 weeks). I managed to miss an important meeting last night listed on the MBV Exploratory blog:

Meeting on Monday evening, 5th January--all welcome!

Monday, January 5, 2009, 7pm-9pm

Mastic Beach Fire Department, Neighborhood Road , Mastic Beach, NY

Pattersquash Creek Civic Association, Inc. and Mastic Beach Village Exploratory Committee

Agenda:

1. Presentation of Our Two Trophies for Our Two Floats in the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade

2. Report on the Neighbor-to-Neighbor Letter Campaign

3. Report on Petition Drive Against the J6 (Second Story) Rezoning of Neighborhood and Mastic Roads in Mastic Beach

4. Guest Presenter: Terry Germano of the Community Library on Library Link and Our Two Listings on that Website

5. Report on Community Efforts in Response to Recent Gun Violence

6. The Mastic Beach Village Exploratory Committee Presents The Year in Review. Videos of the past meetings with West Hampton Dunes Village Mayor Gary Vegliante, Patchogue Village Mayor Paul Pontieri, Islandia Village Mayor Allan Dorman, and Municipal Attorney Joseph Prokop will be shown.

All residents are cordially invited to this very important meeting
that will affect the future of our community.

All members are encouraged to bring a guest or guests.

New Year Board of Education Meeting for Mastic Beach

Happy New Year, Mastic Beach! Are you ready for change in 2009? I certainly am. My word for the new year is "organization". Do you have a word or resolution to live by?

On a local note, I received a telephone call and email about a special Board of Education meeting tomorrow night addressing the recent shooting outside the high school. The email informational purposes is as follows:

Good evening this is Dr. Casciano, Superintendent of Schools. This is a reminder that there will be a special Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, January 6th at 7:30 pm in the High School Auditorium to discuss our district’s response to the incident that occurred after the Varsity basketball game on December 12th. County and law enforcement officials will be at the meeting. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening. Thank you and have a good night.