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The North Merrick School District announced in March that each of its schools — Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road — had qualified for a $75,000 “Reward School Dissemination Grant” from the state Education Department due to their students’ high performance on state assessment tests in 2011 and 2012. more
The toughest merit badge that Merokean Alexander Eagen earned during his six years in Boy Scout Troop 225 was swimming, the 18-year-old says. He remembers tiptoeing to the edge of the big lake at Baiting Hollow Scout Camp in Calverton, in Suffolk County, in the summer of 2012. He could only stare at the water, petrified to jump in. Swimming was the final merit badge he needed to attain Scouting’s highest rank, Eagle, so he was frustrated that he couldn’t finish it. more
Merrick Library Director Ellen Firer, right, and Assistant Library Director Maureen Garvey joined Eagle Scout Nick Genchi, 16, from Boy Scout Troop 225, behind the bench that Nick donated and installed at the Library Wing as part of his Eagle Scout project, which also included landscaping in front of the wing. more
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