By his own admission, Booker T. Gibson wasn’t the most athletic student at Mepham High School in Bellmore in the 1940s, so becoming popular at a school that placed a high value on success in sports –– in particular, in wrestling –– was no easy feat. But Gibson could play boogie-woogie piano, and at the time this highly rhythmic style of the blues ruled the airwaves.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/17/16
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Coloki Inc., a nonprofit group set up by Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy to run the Freeport Work Hiring Trailer that aids impoverished day laborers, will host a benefit fundraiser at Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh on Sunday, April 3, from 4 to 8 p.m.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/11/16
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Updated 12:15 p.m., March 11: A Brooklyn man was arrested and charged with grand larceny, weapon possession and a battery of other charges after he stole a Village of Freeport police SUV on Thursday around 10:10 p.m., Nassau County police say.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/11/16
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For 40 years, the Family Project has been aiding children with developmental disabilities and their families from throughout Bellmore-Merrick. In celebration of the group’s fourth decade, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District honored its founder and coordinator, Steve Rose, at the March 2 Board of Education meeting.
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3/10/16
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Children and adults alike practiced their best yoga poses at a Sensory Beans fundraiser in Bellmore’s FITmixx in late February. The event raised money for an up-and-coming nonprofit gym for children with special needs.
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By Stephany Reyes
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3/9/16
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The Bellmore-Merrick junior-varsity Bulldogs hockey team captured the Nassau County High School Hockey League Championship on Feb. 23 with a 4-1 victory over Port Washington. The squad ended the year with a 19-1 record. The only loss was to Port Washington earlier in the month.
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3/9/16
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With the Bellmore-Merrick Bulldogs’ hopes of winning their first-ever Nassau County hockey championship sitting on the end of his stick in overtime against No. 2 Long Beach on Feb. 26, Mepham High School junior Jon Olson scored perhaps the biggest goal of his Bulldogs’ career — and that’s saying something, minutes earlier he had scored the game-tying goal with just 1:22 remaining in the third period.
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By Steve Siniski
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3/9/16
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An unidentified white male entered the TD Bank at 2260 Merrick Road in Merrick on March 3 and handed a teller a note demanding cash. According to Nassau County police, she tore it up and threw it in the garbage. The man then ran off.
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3/4/16
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Significant temperature swings and winter snowstorms have formed potholes across Long Island. In response, Town of Hempstead workers are out in force filling them, most recently at a news conference at Bayview Avenue and Elm Place in Merrick, attended by Supervisor Anthony Santino.
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3/3/16
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A Freeport man and two teens were arrested and charged with a burglary in Merrick on March 1 and one in Bellmore on Feb. 17, Nassau County police said.
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3/2/16
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