It may have still felt like August on Tuesday, with temperatures reaching 89 degrees and the heat index in the mid-90s, but September had arrived. Merrick and North Merrick children walked through school doorways again on Sept. 2, the first day of the 2014-15 school year.
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9/3/14
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Wendy Leavin, who teaches fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders in the North Merrick School District’s gifted program, WINGS, says she likes her lessons to be pertinent to the real world ...
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By Brian Racow
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6/25/14
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Smiling parents snapped photos of their children as they walked across the floor of Harold D. Fayette Elementary School’s general-purpose room. The occasion: an award ceremony for the young winners of the Keep-A-Merrick-A-Beautiful contest.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/12/14
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Elementary school students from the Progressive School of Long Island and Camp Avenue, Chatterton, Fayette, Levy-Lakeside, and Old Mill Road schools recently participated in a Scrabble tournament on May 27 at the Merrick Library.
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6/12/14
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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.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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The guiding philosophy of the North Merrick School District’s theatre arts program is, in a word, “inclusiveness,” according to Joyce Kelley, a sixth-grade teacher at Fayette School and the program’s director, choreographer and co-founder.
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By Brian Racow
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3/19/14
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Schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District will be closed Wednesday, Jan. 22 due to the snowstorm moving through the area. The Merrick, North Merrick and North Bellmore school districts will also be closed Wednesday, Jan. 22.
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By Brian Racow
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1/21/14
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John Tavares, 23, the New York Islanders’ star center, captain and one of the National Hockey League’s leading goal scorers, stood Tuesday morning facing a sea of raised hands wiggling for his attention. A teacher extended a microphone toward one of the eager children, who asked, “Is hockey a difficult sport?”
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By Brian Racow
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11/29/13
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The North Merrick School District is the recent recipient of several grants that will help it pay for new computers and security upgrades in each of its of three schools as well as an exterior beautification project at Fayette. The grants consist of tax revenue that State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. and Norma Gonsalves, presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, allocated for the district.
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By Brian Racow
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7/3/13
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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 …
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5/16/13
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