Calhoun High School senior Emily Keller is one of 20 students selected from more than 200 nominees from across Long Island to receive the 2011 Long Island Arts Alliance Scholar-Artist Award.
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5/12/11
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On Aug. 14, the Merrick SSBA Nationals won the 8-year-old National Division of the National Junior Baseball Summer League.
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8/16/10
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Merrick's under-10 travel baseball team won not one but two tournaments in the past week.
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8/13/10
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Betty Milano, co-director of the North Merrick Summer Recreation Program, appeared a tad nervous as the drizzle started to fall on July 23. The balloon slide was already set up. The tables full of games of chance were out. And, most important, the children were already on the back field at Old Mill Road Elementary School, prepared for a morning of fun at the program’s annual Penny Carnival.
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Scott Brinton
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8/3/10
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The wind blew hard across the Kennedy High School athletic fields in Bellmore on July 28, and so the ball was tricky to play for the dozen participants in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s annual boys’ soccer camp.
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Scott Brinton
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7/30/10
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See the Herald video of Crazy Hat Day.
Children hurried toward the entrance to Birch Elementary School in Merrick on a recent Monday, some in tow with their parents and others singularly focused on reaching the doors to wave goodbye to their moms or dads before starting their day. The excited expressions on their faces left little doubt that they were happy to be at school.
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Vikas Girdhar
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7/13/10
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Even though multitasking is king, there are so many things we can’t do at the same time: drink a martini and ride a roller coaster, text and take a shower, watch a movie and mow the lawn, run a marathon and flip pancakes.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/24/10
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We all think it: Memorial Day symbolizes the start of summer. For many Americans it means dusting off the grill and making the pool water sparkle. It means big sales at the stores. It means hot dogs, baseball and a three-day weekend. It means that spring is on its way out and the hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer are on the way in.
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5/28/10
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Whether students like it or not, summer school isn't going anywhere in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School district. Superintendent Henry Kiernan announced at a March 24 budget review meeting …
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by Deirdre Krasula
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3/31/10
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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials are weighing whether to eliminate summer school in 2010 owing to $2.2million in potential cuts to the district’s state aid package.
The cuts, if approved by the state Legislature, would reduce Bellmore-Merrick’s total aid by nearly 12 percent.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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