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Calhoun's Kelly Bogart recently took aim at the Olympics, finishing in 16th place out of more than 50 sharpshooters at the U.S. Olympics trials in Alabama recently.

Calhoun shooter competes at Olympic trials

Kelly Bogart is like many dedicated Calhoun High School students. Heavily involved in clubs and sports, the 18-year-old senior is a member of the concert choir and Science Olympiads, and has participated on the lacrosse and track teams. She’s also in two Advanced Placement classes. Each day before school, she packs her pens, pencils and notebooks. The only difference is that she also carries a .117 caliber air rifle. Hey, they don’t call her “Shooter” for nothing. more

By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com | 1/25/12

Central District, Parent Center to host athletic recruiting seminar

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center and Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg will present a program about the college athletic recruiting process, “Does Your Child Dream of Playing Sports in College?” The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Brookside School, 1260 Meadowbrook Road in North Merrick. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 1/17/12

Calhoun High School senior Asia Brown, seated, was named an Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist this past week for her project on cancer research. She was joined here by her Calhoun science advisers, Nick Pappas, Kim Lascarides and Jennifer Pefanis.

Central District boasts five Intel semifinalists

One Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District senior examined teachers’ biases toward students with disabilities, mental and physical, and found in a survey of 5,000 educators across the country that teachers tended to grade students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and diabetes lower than students with a “visible disability,” such as cerebral palsy. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 1/15/12

The Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, headed by Executive Director Wendy Tepfer, hosted a forum on Wednesday, “The Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet,” which looked at the prescription-drug abuse epidemic now plaguing New York, including Nassau County.

Bellmore-Merrick Parent Center confronts Nassau’s pill epidemic

They’re called “pharm parties,” short for pharmacy parties. A group of teenagers –– perhaps as young as 12 and 13 years old –– methodically swipe opiate-based pain killers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone from their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets, dump the pills into a big bowl when no adult is looking and take turns rolling a die. Whatever number comes up, that’s the number of pills a teen must ingest. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 1/12/12

Nine Calhoun seniors to play college ball

Seven members of the Calhoun High School varsity baseball team, one member of the boys’ lacrosse team and one member of the girls’ varsity soccer team have signed letters of intent to play college ball next year. more

1/9/12

Hofstra conference takes on dangerous driving

For decades, public health officials have hammered home a message –– smoking kills. They have done so in splashy advertising campaigns and in the halls of government. Any number of laws and … more

By Scott Brinton, Alex Costello and Jackie Nash | 12/14/11

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s director of health, athletics and driver’s education, served as a keynote speaker at a Long Island Youth Safety Coalition conference, “Drunk, Drugged, Drowsy and Distracted: Using School and Community to Create Comprehensive Solutions to Dangerous Driving.” He was joined here recently by Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.

Hofstra conference takes on dangerous driving

For decades, public health officials have hammered home a message –– smoking kills. They have done so in splashy advertising campaigns and in the halls of government. Any number of laws and ordinances prohibiting smoking in public venues have been passed as a result. These efforts, officials say, have paid dividends. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 12/6/11

Ellen and Sarah Tolle of Cedarhurst were among the dozens of volunteers who assisted at Rock and Wrap It Up's annual Thanksgiving feast in Rockaway Beach, which offers a hot meal to families in need.

Five Towners, Bellmore-Merrick teachers offer hope on Thanksgiving

Dozens of volunteers from the Five Towns and Bellmore-Merrick communities turned out on Thursday to help at Rock and Wrap It Up’s annual Thanksgiving feast at the First Congregational Church at Beach 94th Street in Rockaway Beach, which provides a hot meal of turkey and ham with all the trimmings to families in need. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 11/25/11

Put education before artificial turf

New York state recently imposed a 2 percent tax-levy cap on school districts, forcing them to pare spending by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, unless they can win 60 percent of the vote to override the cap. more

11/25/11

The Grand Avenue Middle School chorus performed at the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education last Wednesday in honor of School Boards Recognition Week.

Middle school students thank Central Board of Education

School Boards Recognition Week, sponsored by the New York State School Boards Association, was held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, and as is tradition in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, students from Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue middle schools attended November’s Board of Education meeting to honor school trustees. The Grand Avenue chorus sang for the board, and Merrick Avenue students recited a poem that they had written, as well as offered gift baskets to each trustee. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 11/10/11