On April 15, 1985, 15-year-old Jason Gruen was walking into Manhasset High School, headed to class, when his heart suddenly stopped and he dropped to the ground, dead. A heart defect had gone undetected. His mother, Susan Gruen Helsinger, who now makes her home in Merrick, was devastated. She still is.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/10/13
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The Nassau County Police Department’s 1st Precinct is investigating multiple recent incidents in which young adolescents were approached in the Merrick-Bellmore area by a man or men in recent weeks.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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4/26/13
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I ran track as an eighth-grader at Grand Avenue Middle School in Bellmore in 2001. I wasn’t a star, but I stuck it out through the spring season and learned how to stay fit for life. I was 14 years old.
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By David Weingrad
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9/26/12
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“Where’s room 239?”
“Dennis! Where’s your next class?”
“I need some help.”
Shouts and the sound of shuffling feet filled the halls of Grand Avenue and Merrick avenue middle schools last week during the annual seventh-grade orientation program, which gives students and their families a chance to get to know their new schools.
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By Julie Mansmann and Scott Brinton
jmansmann@liherald.com and sbrinton@liherald.com
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9/5/12
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Fourth in a series on Bellmore-Merrick students of the arts.
At age 14, Mepham High School freshman and aspiring violist Joshua Corwin has already performed on a number of the New York metropolitan area’s great stages, including the Tilles Center on the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/22/12
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On Feb. 9, 115 French students and their families from Merrick Avenue and Grand Avenue middle schools, along with their teachers, Denise Schleith and Richard Zawislak, enjoyed an evening of French and hockey.
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3/2/12
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School Boards Recognition Week, sponsored by the New York State School Boards Association, was held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, and as is tradition in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, students from Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue middle schools attended November’s Board of Education meeting to honor school trustees. The Grand Avenue chorus sang for the board, and Merrick Avenue students recited a poem that they had written, as well as offered gift baskets to each trustee.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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11/10/11
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Grand Avenue Middle School promotes a community of caring for all, school officials say. To further that environment, a new program, “Grand Gives Back,” was launched in September. Through the program, Grand Avenue selects different organizations each month to raise money for. Students, faculty and staff members are encouraged to donate to charities.
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Deirdre Krasula
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1/10/11
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Nine students have been named Citizens of the Month at Grand Avenue Middle School for October.
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11/5/10
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At a July 13 public meeting, the Bellmore-Merrick Central Board of Education announced that it would allow only Central District teams to play on its five main football fields, thereby prohibiting youth groups from using the fields for football, soccer, lacrosse and other sports.
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Scott Brinton
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7/15/10
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