A North Merrick woman was charged with neglect of an impounded animal, and torturing or injuring animals and failure to provide sustenance, after detectives found 15 dogs living in unsanitary conditions at her home on July 12.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/27/16
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In each of the Bellmore-Merrick Central District’s five schools, students’ desks are now stacked in halls beside cardboard boxes full of textbooks and teachers’ knickknacks, and …
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By Scott Brinton
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7/26/16
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A large limb of an oak tree, which appeared to have partly rotted out, crashed onto two moving cars at Hewlett and Loines avenues in Merrick Woods on July 22 around 1 p.m.
No one was hurt, …
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By Scott Brinton
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7/22/16
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The Merrick Jewish Centre recently hosted a Family Fun Day as part of its ongoing effort to bring Jewish families closer together in an old-fashioned spirit of neighborliness.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/21/16
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Mark Reyes, a recent graduate of Kennedy High School in Bellmore, already knew that he wanted to help brighten one special building when he prepared for his Eagle Scout project with Troop 225 last month.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/21/16
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As current North Merrick Superintendent David Feller has been preparing to retire in recent months, the Board of Education searched for a new superintendent, finally appointing one at its last meeting. The board named Dr. Cynthia Seniuk to the post.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/21/16
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In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Oklahoma had just become the 46th state, Henry Ford finished his first Model T, and the Bellmore Movies was built. The single-screen silent film and …
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By Alex Boyd
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7/20/16
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Fears of another terrorist attack are running high after a series of ruthless strikes in Western Europe and the United States over the past year, perpetrated with semiautomatic rifles and suicide vests.
The gravest threat to humanity, however, remains nuclear arms, according to Holocaust survivor Bernard Otterman, 79, formerly of Merrick. It has been so since World War II, he noted.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/19/16
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The eighth-graders kept their voices low, despite their excitement as they rushed to the Progressive School auditorium in North Merrick last month to line up for their graduation.
They whispered, …
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/14/16
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The former president of the Bellmore-Merrick Emergency Medical Services is headed to prison for two to six years after he stole $1.6 million from the volunteer unit, according to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/30/16
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