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Cast your ballot for Bellmore-Merrick school budgets

It’s an easy call to endorse the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s 2016-17 budget, which comes in at a little more than $147.7 million. more

5/12/16

Recalling L.I. before suburbia took hold

I grew up in Yaphank, a 14-square-mile hamlet in Suffolk County, virtually in the middle of Long Island. (The community to the north is, in fact, called Middle Island.) I remember . . . more

5/12/16

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District honored Laron McGravey, who saved a group of Merrick Avenue Middle School students from a bus fire, during its May 4 meeting. Greeting McCravey, above, was Board President George Haile. They were joined by McCravey’s on, Christian.

Hero school bus driver honored

Laron McGravey, the driver who saved a dozen Merrick Avenue Middle School students from a fire that engulfed their school bus last month, was honored by the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education at its May 4 meeting. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/6/16

Kaminsky’s election may be pivotal in fighting corruption

Voters in New York’s 9th State Senate district did something last week that the governor and the State Legislature have failed to do this legislative session: They stood up for the fight against corruption and the push for ethics reform . . . more

4/28/16

Claudia Borecky, second from left, president of the North Merrick Civic Association, and David Denenberg, a former Nassau County legislator from Merrick, led a news conference last Thursday to urge the State Department of Environmental Conservation to take over cleanup of an underground chemical plume caused by Grumman and the Navy. They were joined by Dr. Dean Hart, of Brookville, and Audrey Ciuffo and David Stonehill, both of Merrick.

A widening toxic threat

A half-dozen Nassau County environmental and civic activists, most from Merrick, came to Bethpage Community Park on April 21 –– the day before Earth Day –– to call on the state to accelerate efforts to clean up a massive chemical plume that has crept for more than seven decades from Bethpage toward South Oyster Bay. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/25/16

Seven arrested on drug charges

The Nassau County Police Department, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Agency reported the arrests of several individuals between April 20 and April 23 for drug-related charges. more

4/25/16

Obamacare’s deleterious effect on the war on drugs

Not only is Obamacare a poor health care plan from a policy perspective, but now many doctors and health care professionals believe that it is contributing to one of the worst epidemics facing this nation, our state and Long Island: opioid addiction more

4/21/16

Merokean Susan Saban is working With Temple Beth Am Rabbi Ronald Brown to create a new religious education program for children with special needs. Saban, a Temple Beth Am member, is the assistant director of pupil personnel services for the Herricks School District.

Remaking Jewish education for kids with special needs

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. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/20/16

Jenna Greenwald, front, and Jessica Rakowski finished a fence that the Kennedy High School Animal Advocates Club recently built at Jones Beach State Park to protect the piping plover, an endangered species.

Protecting the piping plover with a fence

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. more

By Alexandra Brinton | 4/13/16

N.J. man admits to stealing $1.6M from Bellmore-Merrick EMS

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 … more

By Scott Brinton | 4/12/16

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