Two men robbed the AT&T store at 186 Merrick Road in Merrick around 9 p.m. on Monday, Nassau County police said.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/3/16
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One day not long ago, Merokean Susan Saban was sitting in a holiday service at Temple Beth Am of Bellmore-Merrick. A mother of a child with developmental disabilities kept getting up to attend to the boy, who was disrupting the service.
Saban’s heart sunk. She knows well the challenges faced by children with disabilities and their families. She is the assistant director of pupil personnel services in the Herricks School District, and is charged with providing services for children with special needs.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/20/16
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A Merrick woman was arrested and charged with driving while under the influence of prescription drugs with her children in the car, after she struck another vehicle on Merrick Road on Monday, according to Nassau County police.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/14/16
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The Animal Advocates club at Kennedy High School in Bellmore lent a hand to piping plovers, which are on the Endangered Species List, by spending the morning of March 26 stretching out two miles of wire to mark the birds’ nesting area at Jones Beach State Park and protect them from beach-goers.
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By Alexandra Brinton
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4/13/16
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A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to stealing roughly $1.6 million from the Bellmore-Merrick Emergency Services, for which he served as treasurer and president at various times during the seven …
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By Scott Brinton
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4/12/16
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A cold, heavy rain couldn’t stop hundreds of veterans and supporters from gathering on April 2 at the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale to remember the Vietnam War five decades earlier.
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By Stephany Reyes
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4/6/16
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A school bus bound for Merrick Avenue Middle School caught fire and burst into flames on Kirkwood Avenue in Merrick shortly before 8 a.m. on April 6.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/6/16
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Evelyn Mindell, who lived on Croydon Drive in North Merrick for 50 years, from 1946 to 1996, died peacefully at her home in Cedar Crest Village, Pompton Plains, N.J., on Feb. 22. She was 95.
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3/24/16
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“Over here, Joe! Over here, Joe! You gettin’ sick of that, Joe? ” Japanese soldiers yelled in thick accents.
They patroled the jungles of Okinawa Island at night in the hopes of catching American soldiers hiding in the shadows, as World War II was coming to a close in 1945. Army Cpl. Dominick Gualtieri hid in his tank, alongside two other soldiers. They waited until the Japanese retreated to escape the blazing heat and cramped quarters of the tank.
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By Stephany Reyes
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3/23/16
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Sixth-graders at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick listened closely as Marion Blumenthal Lazan slowly told the story of her childhood years in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The students looked up at her with curiosity as she softly spoke, her words lingering.
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By Stephany Reyes
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3/23/16
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