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The Lady Rebels, a North Bellmore-North Merrick 11- and 12-year-old girls’ travel softball team, won their age division in the state’s Little League tournament. From left were Kirsten Knowles, Coach Kelly McArdle, Casey Ward, Natasha Balkaran, Dominique Delutri, Hannah Aievoli, Jenna Giliberti, Coach Luke Tarantino, Sydney Lamagra, Julia Tarantino, Makayla McNulty, Kaitlin McArdle and Manager Tom Simone. Brianna Morse was not pictured.
Bellmore-Merrick Little League team finishes third in Northeast
The Lady Rebels, a North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League travel softball team, last month recaptured its crown as New York champion, which the team last held in 2013 and narrowly missed taking last year. Propelled forward by their years of playing together, the 11- and 12-year-old girls on the team defeated Staten Island’s South Shore squad, 3-1, to win the state tournament on July 18 in upstate Fishkill. more
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Danielle Japngie, left, and Timothy Gorecki, right, received the North and Central Merrick Civic Association’s 2015 Scholarship Award for Community Service at the association’s June 24 meeting at the North Merrick Public Library. NCMCA President Claudia Borecky, center.
North Merrick civic group honors students
The North and Central Merrick Civic Association on June 24 recognized two Calhoun High School seniors for performing community service “above and beyond the norm,” said NCMCA President Claudia Borecky. more
Sara Erfan, Lisa David-Vinci and Nicole DellaBadia work the circulation desk at Merrick Library, where patrons can take out e-readers and iPod Nanos.
Will the digital book replace the library?
Libraries make it possible to borrow e-book and audiobook titles for free, just as one would a traditional book. With the convenience of this online library service, one might worry that it could mean the demise of the physical library. Officials, however, say the library is here to stay. more
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Mepham High School students struck a pose before entering the NYCB Theatre at Westbury for graduation.
Fond memories for Mepham seniors at graduation
More than 300 Mepham High School seniors looked back on their fondest memories over the past four years while looking forward to the future at their commencement last Sunday. The Bellmore-Merrick … more
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Kindergarten winners of the 2015 Keep-A-Merrick Beautiful contest included, from left, Brooke Wiles, Aaron Kaplan, Juliana Reynolds, Naina Kapadia and Emma Fischetti. Joining them were Town of Hemsptead Supervisor Kate Murray, left, and Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney; second row, from left, Nassau County Legislator Norma Gonsalves, Robin Schultz, Ilene Klein, Tracy Fischetti, Sheila Kuschner and Stephanie Grossman; and third row, Charles Rosenblum, Howard Merins and David Feller.
Kids helping to keep Merrick beautiful
Since the 1960s, the annual Keep-A-Merrick Beautiful contest has challenged students at local elementary schools and Merrick Avenue Middle School to think deeply about their community and the environment. 2015 was no different. This year children crafted posters and penned essays on “The Future of Merrick and the World Finding Renewable Energy Sources.” Contest winners were announced during a joyous ceremony at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick on June 2. more
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A Calhoun High School student suffered a “severe case of alcohol poisoning” after drinking at a party last Wednesday night in the woods behind Brookside School in North Merrick, according to Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings. The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, which oversees Calhoun, had asked Uniondale company Summit Security Services to keep watch that night at Brookside, said Central District Superintendent John DeTommaso. Above, a Summit SUV was parked that night outside Brookside as emergency vehicles’ lights flashed at the woods’ edge.
EMTs pull drunken teen from ravine
The teenager, a student at Calhoun High School, had a “severe case of alcohol poisoning,” said Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings in an email to parents on June 12. He drank at a “large gathering” of Calhoun seniors in the woods between Brookside School and the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Hollings wrote. more
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Danielle, left, and Denise Burke, of North Merrick, charged with heroin sale and possession.
Mother, daughter charged with heroin sale
Nassau County police have arrested a mother-daughter duo from North Merrick and charged them with the sale and possession of heroin in Freeport on May 25 at 9 p.m. more
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Merrick Memorial Day parade grand marshal Leonard Tucker saluted the crowds that turned out to remember America's heroes on Monday.
Merricks honor America's war heroes on Memorial Day
Spectators filled the sidewalks as marchers made their way up Merrick Avenue on Monday for the Merricks’ annual Memorial Day parade, which ended in a solemn ceremony at the community’s war monument in North Merrick. more
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Robin Hennessy's class danced to a James Brown classic at the recital on May 15.
Park Avenue embraces tap dancing
When Park Avenue Elementary School sixth-grader Anthony D’Amato learned last year that he would be taught how to tap dance by Joseph Webb, director of the American Embassy of Dance, he was … more
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Last year, thousands of spectators thronged the sidewalk on Merrick Avenue during the Memorial Day parade.
Merricks to mark Memorial Day Monday
Hundreds of people representing dozens of local organizations will line up on Monday for Merrick’s Memorial Day parade, weather permitting. more
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