While we struggled with many of the All-Queens selections in both the CHSAA and the PSAL, picking Andy Kostell as CHSAA Soccer Coach of the Year was a no-brainer. Comment.

Danny Torres    Sr.    GK     St. Francis Prep Comment.

Han Soo Jun didn’t surprise anyone this year. Everyone in the city knew the Flushing senior midfielder was one of the best soccer players around, yet the Korean-born speedster had his way with opponents anyway. Comment.

Louis Llull is not the 2001 TimesLedger PSAL Soccer Coach of the Year because he has the best strategy on corner kicks or has the perfectly executed offside trap. If that were the only criteria, then three or four others in the borough would have been awarded the honor. Comment.

Tallin Lamonaca    Sr.    GK Bayside Comment.

Will the real Holy Cross hockey team please stand up. Comment.

The Mary Louis Academy Hilltoppers won their second game of the season Saturday night, defeating Fontbonne Hall, 55-31 to advance to the semifinals of the St. Francis College Girls Tournament. Comment.

literature over the last hundred years. Russell Simmons’s new book, “Life and Def,” not only redefines the American dream to suit his life and story, but he takes us on a journey, an... Comment.

After falling behind by 20 after one quarter, the St. Francis Prep boys’ varsity basketball team made a valiant comeback against the Robeson Eagles in the semifinals of the 40th annual Monsignor King Tournament, only to fall 69-64 Saturday. Comment.

For the Queens College men’s basketball team, the 2000-01 season proved to be a historic one as the Knights earned their first-ever bid to the Division II NCAA tournament last March. Comment.

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Metro Interior Contracting defeated VFW Post #4784 by 10 points, as Joseph Shade, a new addition to Metro Interior, continued to be a strong presence inside. Logan Frankel and Aris Santis contributed most of Metro's points with Mike Gallagher and Steven Foley adding to the win with their hustle. Metro Interior's record is now 3-5. Comment.

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Playing without center Tina Khiani, the rest of the Our Lady of the Snows Novice girls basketball team stepped up and played beautifully to defeat St. Matthias of Ridgewood, 18-11, in the St. Mary Winfield Christmas Tournament. Comment.

For New York City, Jan. 1, 2002, marked the end of an era as the Giuliani administration passed on the torch to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his new team at City Hall. But with all of the well-deserved attention focused on the departing mayor, the city has overlooked the passing of another era. Comment.

January is the first calendar month to greet the new year. It was named by the ancient Romans for Janus, their god of beginnings. Janus was also the god of gates, locks, and doorways. Comment.

The United States has been in recession since March, ending a 10-year economic boom, recent government data show. Recession means people lose their jobs, and consumers lose their confidence in the economy. The lingering bearish stock market reflects the problem. Comment.

This is the season when peace on earth is supposed to abound and we are encouraged to be generous with each other, at least in spirit. Unfortunately, things do not always go the way we would like them to go. Comment.

In an age when the bashing of the New York City public schools and their teachers is a common occurrence, it is great to find a story about the accomplishment of one of our high school graduates. Comment.

Welcome to the Point. The Point being College Point. The holidays have passed, but we want to wish you a wonderful new year as well as your family and friends. Comment.

The Three Kings who greeted Jesus after his birth will be on hand to pass gifts along to borough children at a re-enactment of their Biblical visit this weekend. Comment.

Most gardeners are aware that a good grade fertilizer can do wonders for their lawns. The traditional combination, often designated with a trio of numbers such as 10-10-10 or 25-10-10, reads like a “one –a –day” vitamin pill for plants. Comment.

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Many Americans wonder how people manage to stay motivated enough to maintain a regular workout routine. While there is not one magical remedy, a number of people have discovered that finding the right health or sports club is a big part of the solution. Comment.

After hiring a lawyer to negotiate with the city, the Queens Women’s Center has gotten a brief postponement of its eviction from Bayside’s Fort Totten, said Ann Jawin, founder of the women’s center. Comment.

In World War II recruiting posters across America asked volunteers to become “The Woman Behind the Man Behind the Gun.” Bella Abramowitz Fisher of Bayside was among the thousands who responded to the appeal. Comment.

Working feverishly in his final innings as mayor to cement one of his most beloved projects, Rudolph Giuliani said Friday he had struck a tentative deal to build new stadiums for the Mets and Yankees. Comment.

Claire Shulman’s 1986 appointment as Queens borough president was anything but a triumph. Comment.

Philip Sica, a Bellerose Manor resident, was elected as the new president of the Queens Village Republican Club at the club’s December meeting. Comment.

Amric Singh Rathour sat in class at the NYPD’s training academy in June hoping to fill the pages of a thin, black spiral notebook with specifics on issuing parking and moving violations. Comment.

After more than 26 years as a city councilman, Deputy Majority Leader Archie Spigner (D-St. Albans) said “goodbye” to Community Board 12 members and other southeast Queens organizations in December, but promised not to be a stranger in the neighborhood. Comment.

More than six months after its grand-opening, JFK Airport’s new Terminal 4 continued to celebrate new developments last month as a Peruvian airline chose Queens’ newest terminal as its New York base of operations and began service to the Dominican Republic. Comment.

The Astoria Boulevard woodshop run by Konstaninos Pilarinos provides a humble home for a sacred trade. Comment.

A lot of things have changed in New York City since City Council Speaker Peter Vallone (D-Astoria) first stepped into office in January 1974. Comment.

Joseph Biondi loved Wednesday nights. Comment.

When air traffic came to a halt nationwide following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the immediate financial blow to airports soon rippled across the economy of Queens and the nation. Comment.

One day after a 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her home in Laurelton, police arrested her live-in boyfriend last Thursday and charged him with the murder, authorities said. Comment.

On Sept. 16, a crowd of thousands gathered around the Maspeth firehouse of Haz Mat 1 and Squad 288 in a tribute to the 19 men both companies lost at the World Trade Center. Comment.

It became clear when Archbishop Molloy defeated St. John the Baptist to win the CHSAA state soccer crown that a member of the Stanners would be named TimesLedger CHSAA Queens Player of the Year. But as is so often the case with championship teams, there were several players deserving of the honor. Comment.

Less than two months after MetLife moved into its new home on Queens Plaza, the neighborhood has already begun to blossom thanks to three newly planted traffic islands directly outside the company’s front door. Comment.

For the first time in more than three decades there were fewer than 100 murders in 2001 in the borough, the Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. Comment.

As the day approaches when the AirTrain opens in Jamaica and plans to transform Sutphin Boulevard into a corporate center begin to take shape, the parking problem in downtown Jamaica remains unsolved. Comment.

Queens’ economy, which has been bruised by the decline in air travel and the loss of nearly 4,000 aviation-related jobs in Queens, got a boost last week when Gov. George Pataki announced the creation of the “Keep America Flying” campaign. Comment.

With sweat still dripping from his brow almost 20 minutes after Stony Brook’s 60-52 loss to Binghamton in both team’s America East conference opener Saturday, Larry Jennings summed up his first collegiate game in nearly a year and a half in three words. Comment.

The longest running and perhaps most successful detour in borough history came to an end Dec. 31, when Councilman Morton Povman’s 31-year reign as District 24 councilman was halted by term limits. Comment.

The 63-year-old Jamaica Estates woman struck by a van on Queens Boulevard Dec. 19 died last week in Jamaica Hospital, becoming the 76th person killed on the dangerous roadway since 1993. Comment.

A prosecutor from the Queens district attorney’s office who had worked on prostitution cases was arrested Friday for patronizing a prostitute, police said. Comment.

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The Glen Oaks Ambulance Corps had scheduled the groundbreaking for the construction project to rebuild its fire-ravaged headquarters, but a strange turn of events canceled the Dec. 30 ceremony. Comment.

Claire Shulman spent one of her final days in office as Queens borough president last month showing off her staff’s latest creation: a little book the longtime Queens leader calls “the bible.” Comment.

At the end of the month, the Guy R. Brewer bridge over the Belt Parkway in South Jamaica will be closed for a yearlong reconstruction project. Comment.

In a move to show support for both a new business and a traditionally underrepresented ethnic group in his district, Councilman Allan Jennings (D-Jamaica) flew to Guyana last Thursday on Universal Airlines for a five-day tour of the South American nation. Comment.

Through dancing, poetry and shopping, hundreds came to celebrate Kwanzaa Saturday at August Martin HS in South Jamaica. Comment.

Frederick Robert Bedell Jr. is a man who works 60 hours a week, keeps up with his charitable activities and can quote Kipling at the drop of a hat. Comment.

U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Forest Hills) has called on a federal agency to monitor jetliner emissions in an area around John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports. Comment.

Patricia Farrell, Laqueta Robbins and the nurses on Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s eighth floor were not sure they could find Adelaida Figueroa’s only son, U.S. Navy Airman Fabian Arias, let alone get him back to Queens to visit his terminally ill mother for Christmas. Comment.

When it comes to the West Nile virus, the state Health Department’s work is never done. Comment.

New York’s two senators and a wealth of Queens political leaders came to the Flushing Library Thursday evening to attend the installation of John Liu as Flushing’s new city council member. Comment.

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Sitting and talking to Amy Fischetti, executive director of the Queens County Farm Museum, one thing becomes apparent — separating the person from the job is nearly impossible. Comment.

Businesses in a Long Island City factory building have continued operating after sustaining minimal damage in two fires that struck within a week of one another late last month. Comment.

For more than 30 years Salvatore Leone delivered mail to homes, apartments and businesses around Bayside with a smile, and when his patrons learned the longtime mail carrier was going to retire, they were dismayed. Comment.

As a result of the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11 and the subsequent anthrax scare, both hospitals in Flushing have developed plans for dealing with possible bioterrorism. Comment.

Vito Caputo and his Christmas tree have developed a reputation. Comment.

On Friday, Macy’s in downtown Flushing was a wreck. Comment.

In an effort to alleviate community concerns and fears over the construction of the Glen Oaks School Campus, City Councilman-elect David Weprin (D-Hollis) organized a meeting between the School Construction Authority and community leaders last month. Comment.

KEW GARDENS HILLS — At 4:40 p.m. Friday, a 1990 Toyota attempting to make a left turn at Main Street and 78th Road collided with a 1998 GMC traveling south-bound on Main Street, said police Comment.

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A Woodside woman died Friday morning from injuries she sustained when a van careened out of control in Herald Square and crashed into a Queens bus the previous afternoon, making her the seventh fatality in the city’s deadliest pedestrian accident in a decade. Comment.

Oratorio Society Of Queens, under the artistic direction of David Close, invites singers to join in the 75th anniversary celebration of our group. Weekly rehearsals will begin Monday, Jan., 7 at 7:45 pm in the North Presbyterian Church, 154th Street and 26th Avenue in Flushing. No choral experience is necessary. Prospective members must be able to carry a tune and have a simple listening audition. Newcomers are requested to arrive at 7:30. Our spring program will include highlights from great choral masterpieces. For information call 718-460-0726. Comment.

It’s a bit more than 1,400 miles between McPherson, Kansas and Douglaston, but the distance seemed like nothing last week when seven volunteers from the tiny Midwestern town paid a visit to the Alley Pond Environmental Center’s Winterfest activities. Comment.

Anyone who knows me at all was well aware that I would be one of the first to stand in line to watch the new film “Ali”, starring Will Smith as the boxer dubbed “The Greatest”. And it’s not that I’m just a big boxing fan, which I surely am, but for a host of other reasons as well. Comment.