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In the blink of an eye, the Mepham Lady Pirates moved from also-rans to near frontrunners in Nassau Class AA track and field. After a strong winter season brought hope, the spring track team turned the potential into results.
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By Steve Siniski
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6/13/12
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Justin Plotnick was doing what any other 16-year-old would do. Last September, the Mepham junior was with his friends, skateboarding outside Mepham High School on a sunny afternoon. He had just bought a new fisheye lens for his camera earlier that day and was testing it out.
That’s when his friend, Richie Dominguez, also a Mepham junior, converted a perfect tail slide with his skateboard on a nearby bench. Plotnick snapped the photo, but it wasn’t until after when he realized he had captured the moment perfectly.
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By David Weingrad
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6/7/12
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On May 22, many of the community’s most talented young musicians, vocalists, artists and on-stage performers gathered in one room at the Uniondale Marriott for the Bellmore-Merrick Cultural Arts Foundation’s 33rd Annual Awards Luncheon.
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By David Weingrad
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6/6/12
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Mepham High School senior Kyle Wechsler skipped class last Wednesday morning. No, he hadn’t forgotten to study for a big test. Wechsler, 18, went to give blood in the school gymnasium.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/23/12
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It was a day of celebration and humanity at Mepham High School in Bellmore last Friday as a student-organized “Night of Action” function was held in the school’s gymnasium to raise money to provide an education for underprivileged Ugandan children.
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By David Weingrad
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5/16/12
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A sweep in the final three-game series of the regular season vaulted East Meadow into the No. 5 seed in the Nassau Class AA baseball playoffs, and the Jets extended that winning streak to four games with a 10-3 home win over No. 12 Mepham in the first round last Monday.
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By Steve Siniski
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5/16/12
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In one of the stranger endings to any softball game, let alone a postseason matchup, a dead ball run awarded after a wild pitch with runners on first and third and one out in the bottom of the ninth pushed No. 2 East Meadow past No. 7 Mepham, 1-0, in the quarterfinal round of the Nassau Class AA playoffs.
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By Steve Siniski
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5/15/12
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Those who know Nina DiFranco say that the Mepham High School senior isn’t one to back down from a challenge.
DiFranco, 18, spent seven weeks in the Michigan State University High School Honors Science Program last summer. She worked for 40 hours a week with professors and doctoral candidates, evaluating a new water-filtration technology designed to remove viruses from water using a “photocatalytic membrane reactor.”
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By Deirdre Krasula, dkrasula@liherald.com
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4/26/12
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In March, a group of Mepham High School students embarked on a “1,000 Bracelet Campaign,” a fundraiser focusing on Ugandan children who have been kidnapped and killed by Ugandan militant Joseph Kony, who has led an open rebellion against the Ugandan government since 1987.
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By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com
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4/26/12
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Eight straight goals by host Mepham propelled it to victory against cross-town rival Calhoun, 13-10, in a boys’ varsity lacrosse matchup on April 18. Matt Byrne led the way with seven points.
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David Weingrad
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4/24/12
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