Massapequa's Top Stories of 2013

From the return of a beloved business to a mysterious death, it's been an eventful year.

Her'e a look at Wantagh-Seaford Patch's top stories of 2013:

• A death in front of a Massapequa home, baffled authorities, but in the end Irene Luetje died of natural causes.
• It was the comeback of the year. The Nautilus Diner which shut its doors three years ago re-opened.
• The news was not so good for Manor East Caterers on Jerusalem Avenue, which suddenly closed its doors in June.
• A Massapequa couple was accused of running an international prostitution ring.
• A Wantagh man who was charged in a DWI crash on the Southern State Parkway in Msassapequa was convicted of manslaughter in the vehicle-related death of a Wantagh High School student 30-years earlier.
  
• A Massapequa man accused in a fatal hit and run crash, had resigned as a high school gym teacher five years earlier amid allegations he had an affair with one of his students.
  
• With much controversy surrounding the state's Common Core standards and testing around Long Island in 2013, the Massapequa school district passed two resolutions asking the state to reconsider its policy.
  
• Massapequa saw a new superintendent in 2013 as Lucille Iconis took over in July.
  
• Former Superintendent Charles Sulc ended a career that began in 1969.
  
• Tim Taylor won a strange school Board election in May which featured only write-in candidates.