Candidates for offices that represent Bellmore and Merrick will make their pitches to voters this week at two Merrick events. more

The New York State School Music Association has selected five Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District students to perform with its All-State ensembles when the organization gathers for its … more

The Kennedy High School Alumni Association - Bellmore JFK Alumni, Inc. - will host a bone-marrow registry drive for the child of a Bellmore-JFK alumna who is suffering from leukemia.Janice Dean … more

The Calhoun High School On Tour Company, the school’s magnet drama program that takes in students from Merrick and Bellmore, will hold its second annual Halloween Family Funfest on Nov. 1 at the school. more

The Calhoun High School On Tour Company, the school’s magnet drama program that takes in students from Merrick and Bellmore, will hold its second annual Halloween Family Funfest on Nov. 1 at the school. more

The race for the New York State Legislature’s 14th Assembly District pits the incumbent, Republican David McDonough, of North Merrick, against Gaspare Tumminello, a Democrat from Merrick, who is deputy chief of staff for the Nassau County Legislature’s Democratic minority. Tumminello, a native of Franklin Square, had previously run unsuccessfully for Nassau County legislator in the 8th District in 2009. This year, the Herald asked each of the candidates to fill in a four-question survey about their positions on salient state issues. The 14th Assembly District takes in all or parts of Freeport, Roosevelt, Merrick, North Merrick, Bellmore, North Bellmore, Wantagh, North Wantagh, Seaford and Massapequa. more

Kennedy High School students, faculty and staff were treated to an action-packed day of festivities for the 2014 Homecoming celebration.The Kennedy Cougars varsity football team took on the Jericho … more

A former North Bellmore School District music teacher is suing the district, charging age discrimination because she was denied tenure. North Bellmore had attempted to block the suit from moving … more

Bellmore Memorial Library Director Maureen Garvey “geeks” mysteries, red wine and chocolate. North Bellmore Director Tom Bazzicalupo geeks Chihuahuas. And for Merrick Library Director Ellen … more

More than a dozen children across New York state have contracted enterovirus EV-D68, a potentially deadly virus that causes severe inflammation of the respiratory tract, according to state Department … more