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Central looking to increase course options

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is working on a plan that would allow most students to take algebra and earth science in eighth grade, if they wish, according to Superintendent John DeTommaso. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/21/15

Last year, thousands of spectators thronged the sidewalk on Merrick Avenue during the Memorial Day parade.

Merricks to mark Memorial Day Monday

Hundreds of people representing dozens of local organizations will line up on Monday for Merrick’s Memorial Day parade, weather permitting. more

5/20/15

Parents and teachers took part in a rally against New York educational policies on March 27 in front of Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick.

Parents throw brake on state tests

Last week more than a thousand third- to eighth-grade students in the Merricks did not take state English Language Arts tests. more

By Brian Racow | 4/22/15

Scott Brinton, who is senior editor of the Merrick Herald Life, is also a Merrick resident whose children attended Levy-Lakeside Elementary School.

Merrick should say, 'Yes to FLES!'

I’m disappointed. Very disappointed. The Merrick Elementary School District’s superintendent, Dr. Dominick Palma, has proposed eliminating the district’s Spanish language program, which the district offered along with French in the 1970s before it cut foreign language because of budget pressures. Spanish was finally reinstated in 2006. more

By Scott Brinton | 2/3/15

The McDonough family enthusiastically participated in the Merrick Chamber of Commerce’s Halloween parade on Oct. 25. Parents Brian and DayAnn donned Viking gear; Doug, 9, transformed into a werewolf; Donovan, 7, paid homage to Pac-Man; and Briana, 13, played a broken doll.

The Merricks go trick-or-treating

Halloween came early in the Merricks this year: On Saturday, Oct. 25, ghosts, ghouls and goblins haunted downtown Merrick and North Merrick’s Fraser Avenue Park. more

10/29/14

A camera, attached atop a van parked on Merrick Avenue outside Fayette School in North Merrick, watched for speeding motorists.

North Merrick gets second speed-zone camera

Fayette School has joined the list of community schools outside which motorists must slow down or else risk a speeding ticket. more

By Brian Racow | 10/1/14

Children of all ages had a blast on the many amusement rides at the Merrick Chamber of Commerce’s annual Fall Festival on Saturday and Sunday.

Video: Merrick Chamber fair delights thousands

Rain shut down the 24th annual Merrick Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival in the middle of the afternoon last Saturday. By Sunday morning, however, the rainclouds had moved northeast and the sun came out, offering a perfect day of family fun up and down Merrick Avenue, from the Long Island Rail Road station to the famed southwestern eatery R.S. Jones, at the corner of Loines Avenue. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/15/14

Laser Industries worked throughout the summer to install artificial-turf fields at Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District. Above, heavy machinery brought in earlier this summer at Calhoun High.

With school starting, turf fields are ready for play

With the summer winding down, so is work on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s three new artificial-turf athletic fields at Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools. The fields passed their final “bounce test” and were certified playable on Sept. 9, according to Saul Lerner, the Central District's athletics director. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/12/14

Word of Mouth, the Merrick Avenue Middle School a cappella group, sang at the “Merricks Make Music” concert on June 3 at the North Merrick Public Library.

A little rain couldn’t stop the music

The North Merrick Public Library hosted a music festival on June 3 that starred many up-and-coming musicians: elementary school to high school students from the community. more

6/19/14

The Merrick Board of Education unanimously decided on May 13 that school administrators were not to distribute field tests in math and English to classrooms at Birch, Chatterton and Levy Lakeside schools.

Central, Merrick districts refuse field tests

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and Merrick School District recently received shipments of multiple-choice tests, sealed in plastic wrap, from NCS Pearson, Inc., the company that creates and grades New York’s standardized tests for third to eighth graders. Both districts sent the test books back, unopened. more

By Brian Racow | 6/12/14

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