A little more than two weeks after a half-dozen parents protested the poor condition of the visitors’ bleachers at Mepham High School during a Board of Education meeting, the board convened a special afternoon session on May 24 to discuss a fix for the problem. more

In the Merrick School District, incumbent school board Trustees Gina Piskin and Sigal Negrin, who was recently appointed to the board, ran unopposed and were re-elected. Piskin received 943 votes, and Negrin garnered 832. more

The race for a seat on the North Bellmore Board of Education pitting incumbent JoAnn DeLauter against challenger Frank LaMagra ended in a tie, with 799 votes for each of the candidates. more

Famed New York Jet Curtis Martin will appear at John. F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore for a fundraiser to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims on Monday, May 20, student government officials said. more

North Bellmore School District voters will decide whether they want to pass the elementary district’s proposed $50.5 million spending plan for the 2013-14 school year, which maintains all academic programs. more

Rosemarie Corless The choice of Rosemarie Corless for the North Bellmore Board of Education is an easy one. Through her work as a nurse practitioner in the pediatric cancer department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, school trustee and PTA volunteer, Corless has demonstrated that she cares deeply about children, which is the most important quality that we like to see in a Board of Education candidate. more

In Merrick Norman J. Levy-Lakeside Elementary School, Babylon Road, Merrick, one block south of Merrick Road, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 21. In North Merrick Harold D. Fayette Elementary … more

When residents in Merrick and North Merrick go to the polls on May 21 to vote on the budgets for next school year, they will also cast ballots for Board of Education candidates in both districts. The Merrick Board of Education oversees Birch, Chatterton and Levy-Lakeside schools, and the North Merrick Board of Education oversees Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road schools. more

There is no doubt that the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District would not be the quality district that it is if it did not have excellent feeder elementary schools. more

Voting for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s $139.5 million budget should be a no-brainer for local residents. Newsweek recently ranked all three of the Central District’s high schools –– Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham –– among the top 600 high schools in the nation –– out of more than 26,000 high schools. We can only say, Wow! more