Five Kennedy High School research students recently competed in the second, and final, round of the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, and one came away with a second-place award, one with a third place and three with honorable mentions. more

Students in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s five schools are working to tie the community together — literally and figuratively. Thanks to the brainstorming of a Kennedy … more

Kennedy High School senior Beatrice Brown was recently named a 12th-grade winner in the American Museum of Natural History’s annual Young Naturalist Awards, a national contest. Brown won an all-expenses-paid overnight trip to New York City, where she will attend an awards ceremony at the museum and be given a special tour of its collections. Brown said she is excited to attend the ceremony because she has not been to the museum before. more

Jews from Bellmore and Merrick came together on April 23 to celebrate Israel’s 67th birthday. more

Merrick Herald Life Senior Editor Scott Brinton, third from right, who is an adjunct journalism professor at Hofstra University, recently brought his Issues in Science Reporting students to a cleanup in the Merrick woodlands off the Meadowbrook Parkway to help out and report on the event. More than 50 volunteers attended the cleanup. more

Chaz Murray, 54, grew up in Merrick bounding through the woods near his home. He became a Boy Scout and went on to camp in the wild. He moved away when he turned 24 and returned seven years ago. On Sunday, he said he was horrified to see the derelict state into which Merrick’s forests off the Meadowbrook Parkway have fallen. Murray, a New York City paramedic, was one of 52 volunteers who came to the woods between Sunrise Highway and Meadowbrook Road in Merrick to clean up debris that had washed from farther north into the forest via the Meadow Brook or had been strewn there by vandals. He said he learned about the cleanup by reading the Merrick Herald Life. more

Kennedy and Mepham high schools recently went to bat for veterans. Students played in a baseball game on April 10 that doubled as a charity fund-raiser for a nonprofit organization that supports … more

State Farm donated $25,000 on March 26 to the Community Parent Center, a Bellmore-Merrick nonprofit organization that supports parents and families with children in kindergarten to 12th grade, for its “Drive in the Safe Lane” program at Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools. more

Merrick environmental activist Bob Young is reviving a nearly decade-long campaign to protect and preserve the fragile woodlands that line the Meadowbrook Parkway. From 2002 to 2011, hundreds of volunteers conducted cleanups, environmental studies and community forums aimed ... more

A North Merrick-based Catholic organization recently congratulated local children for their outstanding contributions to an annual competition that is designed to celebrate the arts.The Catholic … more