Jan. 4: Town Board Meeting, Boys and Girls Varsity Basketball and More

West boys and East girls will be playing games at home today, while Town Hall will host the first town board meeting of the year today. Here's information relating to basketball, the town board meeting and more for you Tuesday.

1. The first Town of Smithtown board meeting will take place today at 2 p.m. at Town Hall – come out and let your community concerns be heard.

2. West boys basketball will take on East Islip at 5:45 p.m., while East girls basketball will face Copiague at 5:45 p.m., come out and support your local teams!

3. At 10 a.m., check out our first Financially Fit column of the year where columnist Jackie Licurse discusses the importance of reassessing personal savings for 2011.

4. At noon check out our first Smithtown, A History feature of the year. History writer Rita Egan shares her experience with writing the column and explains what will come from the weekly feature in the future.

5. Rapid bamboo growth has been caused issues between neighbors in Smithtown as of late – at 6 p.m. check out the story of how planting a certain species of bamboo has affected people within your community.