Voters overwhelmingly passed school budgets in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School, Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore and North Merrick school districts. The vote tally was as follows:
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Scott Brinton
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5/18/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, more than 17,000 people die in drunk-driving crashes annually -- one person every 30 minutes.
Officials in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and at the Community Parent Center take that statistic to heart, said Wendy Tepfer, the parent center's director. And so she teamed up with Saul Lerner, the Central District's health and physical education director, to bring an innovative anti-DWI program to Bellmore-Merrick next Thursday.
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Scott Brinton
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5/14/10
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The Herald enthusiastically endorses the Merrick, North Merrick and Bellmore-Merrick Central school districts' 2010-11 budgets.
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5/13/10
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The race for the Merrick Board of Education pits two challengers and one incumbent against one another in an at-large election. They are Joann Seibert, Gina Piskin and Maria DiCarlo.
The following provides biographies on each of the candidates.
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Sari Zeidler
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5/13/10
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Merrick residents heard the positions of Board of Education candidates at Meet the Candidates Night on May 3 at Chatterton Elementary School.
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Sari Zeidler
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5/6/10
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June Irvin, a former North Merrick School District superintendent, Old Mill Road School principal and active community member, died on April 27 of natural causes. She was 76.
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Sari Zeidler
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5/4/10
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Louis Kruh of Merrick, a decorated World War II hero, 30-year veteran of the Merrick School District Board of Education, former president of the Bellmore-Merrick School District board, and longtime advertising executive turned attorney, died after a long illness on May 1. He was 87.
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Scott Brinton
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5/4/10
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At a budget workshop at Gunther Elementary School on Wednesday night, North Bellmore officials told residents how the 2010-11 school budget would affect their taxes.
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Deirdre Krasula
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4/29/10
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The Merrick School District Board of Education adopted a $41 million budget for the 2010-11 school year on April 20 that would, if passed, increase spending by 3.37 percent and the tax levy by 5.34 percent.
The tax levy cannot be definitively determined until a New York state budget is passed in Albany and school districts receive information regarding state aid funding.
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Sari Zeidler
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4/29/10
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