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A student at Grand Avenue Middle School tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a letter from Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Superintendent John DeTommaso.

Student at Grand Ave. Middle School in Bellmore tests positive for COVID-19

Several cases of COVID-19 have emerged in Bellmore and Merrick’s high school and elementary school districts in the last week, according to letters from superintendents, including one Grand … more

By Andrew Garcia | 4/1/20

Mark Steinberg, president of the Bellmore-Merrick United Secondary Teachers and a teacher for 35 years, will retire next month.

Mark Steinberg, Bellmore-Merrick teachers union president, to retire

Regardless of what Mark Steinberg taught in his science classes, he hopes his students left with a lasting, positive feeling. He affectionately refers to his classroom as “Steinberg’s World,” … more

By Andrew Garcia | 5/23/19

Teachers union president to retire

Regardless of what Mark Steinberg taught in his science classes, he hopes his students left with a lasting, positive feeling. He affectionately refers to his classroom as “Steinberg’s World,” through which hundreds of middle-schoolers have passed during his 35-year career. more

By Andrew Garcia | 5/23/19

John Huss, of the Wantagh-based Fiber Control Inc., an asbestos-abatement company, was hard at work at Calhoun High School last Friday. As part of the Bellmore-Merrick Central School District’s reconstruction project, asbestos floor tiles are being removed at all five district schools.

Central High School District revamp is well under way

In each of the Bellmore-Merrick Central District’s five schools, students’ desks are now stacked in halls beside cardboard boxes full of textbooks and teachers’ knickknacks, and … more

By Scott Brinton | 7/26/16

Steve Rose, center, founder of the Bellmore-Merrick Family Project, was honored at the March 2 Central District Board of Education meeting. Joining him were, at left, John DeTommaso, the Central District superintendent, Janet Goller, the Board of Education vice president, to Rose’s immediate left, and his family.

Central Board honors Family Project founder

For 40 years, the Family Project has been aiding children with developmental disabilities and their families from throughout Bellmore-Merrick. In celebration of the group’s fourth decade, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District honored its founder and coordinator, Steve Rose, at the March 2 Board of Education meeting. more

3/10/16

Calhoun High Schools Josh Aberman is organizing the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s first Writers’ Festival, to be held Friday at Calhoun.

Bellmore-Merrick Central District to host first Writers' Festival

Calhoun High School senior Josh Aberman loves poetry, particularly the Beat Generation poetry produced by such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg. So, when Aberman was looking to do a fundraiser for the Economic Policy Institute as a senior project, he thought he might try an event aimed at writers. more

By Scott Brinton | 2/24/16

Grand Avenue Middle School officials recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the school’s new artificial-turf athletic field.

Grand Ave. Middle School gets turf field

Bellmore middle-schoolers now have a turf field to call their own. Residents, students, faculty members and administrators gathered on May 4 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Grand Avenue Middle … more

By Julie Mansmann | 6/4/15

Central looking to increase course options

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is working on a plan that would allow most students to take algebra and earth science in eighth grade, if they wish, according to Superintendent John DeTommaso. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/21/15

Let's start over with Common Core

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears locked in a political death spiral. Last year brought growing dissatisfaction with the State Education Department’s dysfunctional implementation of the new Common Core State Standards . . . more

4/30/15

The One Voice, One Message 5K Run/Walk route.

Bellmore-Merrick Central School District to host 5K for charity

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District will host its first “One Voice, One Message” 5K run/walk at Grand Avenue Middle School on Saturday, March 21, at 9 a.m. Race-day registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/5/15