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Gary Schall greets Facilities Director Chris Milano with an elbow bump at the ribbon-cutting.

“Homecoming” usually conjures images of colorful parade floats and hard-fought football games, but for the students, faculty and staff of East Rockaway and Lawrence high schools, the term has a more basic meaning: the return to their respective school buildings after months of repair following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. more

By Mary Malloy and Jeff Bessen | 4/24/13

Veterinarian Dr. Lee Gelfand, of Merrick, above, struggled for months to restore his business, All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Long Beach, after Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. He was forced to take roughly $750,000 in private loans to keep the clinic afloat. Above, Gelfand at the hospital shortly after the storm.

Businesses slowly recover after Sandy

Rolling River Day Camp sits on five acres along Mill River, which snakes through East Rockaway and Bay Park on the way to East Rockaway Channel. The river can be a friend. It forms an idyllic backdrop for a camp replete with swimming pools, playgrounds and ball fields. It can also be a foe. During a nor’easter in 2010, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the river inundated much of the camp, wreaking havoc. more

By Scott Brinton | 7/28/15

Classrooms at the Hebrew school have also been renovated. The spaces are now brighter, and offer flexible seating and tables, oriented toward experiential learning.

What's new at Congregation Beth Ohr's Hebrew School?

Over the past two years, the Hebrew school at Congregation Beth Ohr, in Bellmore, has undergone some extensive changes in both its curriculum and physical appearance. more

By Jordan Vallone | 7/30/23

Students in Dinkelmeyer Elementary School’s SADD Club, including Anastasia Morse, Sumayyah Shaikh, Adriana Aglio and Eric Lin, top row, and Savannah Mannion and Aiden Ramnarine, bottom row, helped the school’s PTA collect toys this year, to be donated to children at NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola.

SADD Club helps PTA with major toy drive at Dinkelmeyer Elementary School

The holiday season is full of initiatives that encourage students to give back at elementary schools throughout the North Bellmore School District. more

By Jordan Vallone | 12/22/23

Jordyn Kratenstein; Ava Mogelefsky, chapter president of Becca’s Closet; and Julie Lehrfeld worked together to collect over 300 prom dresses for students in need.

Bellmore-Merrick Becca's Closet chapter donates 300 dresses

Ava Mogelefsky, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School, has helped distribute more than 60 prom dresses since March to Long Island students with the school’s chapter of Becca’s Closet, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping high school students in need. more

By Roksana Amid | 5/14/23

The Merrick Jewish Centre played host to Bellmore and Merrick synagogues last week, for a community wide celebration at the end of Hanukkah. Rabbi Josh Dorsch lit the Jewish centre’s menorah.

Merrick-Bellmore community event inspires finding light amid dark times

Last week, hundreds gathered for a joyous closure to the Hanukkah season at the Merrick Jewish Centre. Joined by Congregation Beth Ohr in Bellmore and Temple Beth Am of Merrick & Bellmore, the Jewish community gathered to light their menorahs, listen to and sing holiday music, and catch gelt — chocolate gold coins — off of a fire truck. more

By Jordan Vallone | 12/22/23

Long Island rebuilding in Sandy's wake

The superstorm called Hurricane Sandy will surely go down as one of the U.S.’s most costly and crippling storms, ripping a $20 billion swath of destruction up the Eastern Seaboard, and Long Island’s South Shore was front and center amid the tumult as Sandy’s northern end lashed communities from Bellmore to Valley Stream and from Long Beach to Rockville Centre. Now, after the flooding and the fires, the anxiety and fear, the South Shore must slowly rebuild, one home, one school, one business at a time. more

By Scott Brinton | 10/31/12

Pretty in ink

I’ve got a pretty new ankle bracelet. It depicts my four children, with two blue hearts and two pink hearts representing two boys and two girls, and two smaller, dangling blue hearts for my … more

By Mary Malloy | 12/17/14

Students of the Merrick Jewish Centre had the pleasure of writing and recording their own raps about their faith with the help of Matt Bar, the executive director of Bible Raps.

Embracing Judaism through Bible Rap at the Merrick Jewish Centre

When you think of music in the Jewish faith, you don’t necessarily think of rap — but that all changes with Bible Raps. more

By Rachele Terranova | 12/22/23

Members of Calhoun’s OHO Lab around a table in school, where they helped spread the mission of the club, which sends inspirational messages to prisoners as part of a free book exchange.

Calhoun High School's OHO Lab 'opens hearts' through origami

At the Chuang Yen Monestary, a Buddhist institution in upstate New York, Joseph Darcourt, a junior at Calhoun High School, learned of the monestary's free book-distribution program, and connected the program to his own community. more

By Jordan Vallone | 5/14/23

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