
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.
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