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Fire commish faces challenge from fire chief

North Merrick voters will choose next Tuesday between two longtime Fire Department officers running for a five-year term on the department’s Board of Fire Commissioners. more

By Brian Racow | 12/3/14

A red Honda sedan came to a stop on Oct. 25 partway inside Jim-Jam Cleaners, at 1200 Merrick Ave in North Merrick, after crashing through the building’s front doors. One person inside Jim-Jam suffered a “minor injury” and declined medical assistance, a fire official said.

Car slams into Jim-Jam Cleaners

A red Honda sedan smashed through the front doors of North Merrick’s Jim-Jam Cleaners on Oct. 25, wrecking a section of the building’s façade. more

11/7/14

A ceremony Tuesday morning celebrated the start of construction on a Little Whaleneck Road house that the charity Building Homes for Heroes will give to Kevin Vaughan, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, for free. Vaughan, who grew up in North Merrick, expressed many thanks to BHFH and the community, telling the crowd of about 150 people that it was “the greatest day of my life.”

Community support sustains a veteran, his family and friends

Kevin Vaughan, a Marine corporal who was wounded in Afghanistan and received a hero’s welcome when he returned home to North Merrick in 2012, will now receive a free house, courtesy of Building Homes for Heroes. more

By Brian Racow | 9/10/14

Jim Sarro, representing the Island Park Fire Department, dug into a pile of eight dozen clams last Sunday at the Peter’s Clam Bar Clam Eating Contest.

That’s a lot of clams

Peter’s Clam Bar hosted a clam-eating contest on Sunday to benefit Long Island firehouses that were damaged by Superstorm Sandy. A total of 14 contestants from Island Park Fire Department, Oceanside Fire Department, Point Lookout-Lido Fire Department, Long Beach Fire Department, North Merrick Fire Department, and Baldwin Fire Department competed in the first part of the contest . A total of almost 2,000 clams were eaten by all. more

8/20/14

N. Merrick paramedic one of state’s best

Kevin O’Hara has been saving lives for four decades. A volunteer paramedic and firefighter with the North Merrick Fire Department, O’Hara is also a purveyor of life-saving knowledge to others — he has trained thousands of EMTs throughout his career, and thousands more Nassau County residents have learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ... more

8/13/14

Kevin O'Hara Jr., a North Merrick Fire Department member, teaches the Heimlich maneuver in 2011. The North Merrick Fire Department is the Nassau County Regional Emergency Medical Services Council’s 2014 “EMS Agency of the Year.”

N. Merrick F.D. earns ‘EMS Agency of the Year’

The North Merrick Fire Department topped 72 other local agencies this year to be selected as the Nassau County Regional Medical Advisory Council’s “EMS Agency of the Year.” more

8/13/14

Ex-fire dep't leader sentenced to three years in LIRR fraud case

Michael Costanza, 60, of North Merrick, a retired Long Island Rail Road transportation manager and former North Merrick Fire Department commissioner, was sentenced Tuesday to a three-year term in federal prison for making fraudulent disability claims and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved government benefits. more

By Brian Racow | 6/4/14

Members of the North Merrick Fire Department held flags at the plaque dedication, which Judy Mankita, Superintendent John DeTommaso, Mepham Principal Michael Harrington, Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg, John Scalesi, Assemblyman Dave McDonough, Sheryl Perry and Legislator Michael Venditto attended.

Mepham Key Club dedicates plaque at Brookside 9/11 memorial

The Mepham High School Key Club and Bellmore Kiwanis Club recently dedicated a memorial plaque honoring the 24 Bellmore-Merrick victims who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade … more

By Julie Mansmann | 5/15/14

A federal judge sentenced Robert Ellensohn, former chairman of the North Merrick Fire Department’s Board of Commissioners, to two months’ home confinement and three years’ probation for defrauding the government of $337,000 in nine years. The judge also ordered him to repay the money.

Ex-fire commish avoids jail for $337,000 disability fraud

Robert Ellensohn’s decision to pretend that he had become disabled working for the Long Island Rail Road and retire on a disability pension was an “aberrant” mistake in the life of an otherwise exemplary man, Ellensohn’s lawyer, David Jacobs, told a federal judge last Friday as the judge prepared to sentence Ellensohn for multiple felonies. more

Brian Racow | 3/12/14

Three elected fire commissioners in North Merrick

Voters in the North Merrick Fire District went to the polls on Tuesday, Dec. 10, to elect three members of the five-member North Merrick Fire Department Board of Commissioners. They returned to office one long-serving incumbent, Scott Rockwin, in an unopposed election, and they chose newcomers Gregory Smith and Joseph Vicario for vacant seats. Smith eked out election over his opponent, Scott Sabel, by five votes. more

By Brian Racow | 12/12/13

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