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The state comptroller’s office reviewed 2,969 checks the North Merrick School District wrote and 123 wire transfers it made between 2011 and 2013 and found wrong names on all of them.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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When New York state debuted new standardized tests for third- to eighth-graders in English and math last year, a handful of Merrick parents told school administrators that they would not allow their children to take them. Earlier this month, the number of students whose parents have joined this protest nearly doubled at Merrick Avenue Middle School, more than doubled in the North Merrick School District and more than tripled in the Merrick School District.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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Trustees of the Merrick School District discussed granting recently enacted school tax exemptions for qualifying veterans, but they were hesitant to do so, according to Board President Gina Piskin and Merrick Superintendent Dr. Dominick Palma, who cited concerns about the exemptions’ cost to non-veteran homeowners and their apparent irrevocability. The board has now missed a Feb. 28 deadline to approve the veterans tax exemption.
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By Brian Racow
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3/26/14
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The 13 sixth-graders in the Merrick School District’s Alternative Program for Enriching Experiences recently spent more than four months drawing blueprints for and meticulously crafting toothpick bridges. They even visited the Center for Architecture in Manhattan to study bridge construction, from beam to cantilever, truss and arch bridges, before undertaking their projects.
Then the students destroyed their creations.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/20/14
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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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Residents of the 8th State Senate District, which stretches along the South Shore from Baldwin to Lindenhurst, do not now have a representative in the New York State Legislature’s upper chamber. This troubles some as Albany legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo negotiate this month over how the state will allocate its more than $100 billion budget.
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By Brian Racow
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3/5/14
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All five area school districts, including the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and the Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore and North Merrick elementary districts, have closed school on Thursday, Feb. 13, because of a snow storm that swept across the area early in the morning, causing hazardous road conditions.
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2/13/14
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All five Bellmore-Merrick school districts –– including Bellmore-Merrick, Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore and North Merrick –– have announced that they will delay school by two hours on Thursday, Feb. 13, owing to an winter storm that battered parts of the South and rolled across Long Island on Thursday morning.
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By Scott Brinton and Brian Racow
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2/12/14
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and the Merrick School District announced that they will delay school by two hours on Thursday, Feb. 13, owing to an impending winter storm that battered parts of the South and was making its way up the East Coast at press time on Wednesday night.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/12/14
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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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