“Are you indestructible? I thought I was,” an electronic voice asked students at the Meadowbrook Alternative Program at the Brookside School in North Merrick last week. The voice detailed the …
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By Deirdre Krasula
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4/14/11
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Bilal Siddiqui, who is all of 17, began work on a research project aimed at understanding how cancer cells hijack the body’s own enzymes in order to metastasize, or spread, when he was still a sophomore at Mepham High School last year.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/13/11
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Mepham High School senior Steven Tsai was recently crowned New York state champion in the Poetry Out Loud competition, a national contest that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance and competition.
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By David Weingrad
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4/11/11
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is planning to cut 13 teaching positions next school year. Before the district cuts these teachers, though, it must do everything in its power to save them. They are the people who give your children an education, not SMART Boards, not artificial-turf fields and not substitute-teachers.
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By Ross Shulman
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4/7/11
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A team of five Mepham High School students recently took first place at the Physics Olympiad at SUNY Farmingdale. The winning physicists were, from left, Werda Alam, Tara Panzarino, Mollie Bienstock, Josh Haimson and Bilal Siddiqui. They were joined by their teacher and coach William Leacock.
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4/7/11
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Teachers and administrators in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District have agreed to voluntarily freeze their salaries for the 2011-12 academic year in order to avoid further budget cuts and preserve student programs. In all, the wage freeze will save the district $840,000, according to Central officials.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/25/11
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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released an audit of the North Bellmore Fire District. The district received a handful of recommendations for changes in its accounting.
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By Deirdre Krasula
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3/15/11
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s ice hockey team, the Bulldogs, finished second in the state championships in Buffalo last week.
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By David Weingrad
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3/14/11
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To the Editor:
At a time when school taxes are high, the state is cutting school aid and everyone is trying to reduce spending, two Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District trustees have proposed placing a $3.5 million to $4.5 million bond on the May ballot to fund construction of three synthetic-turf football fields.
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3/11/11
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On March 1, representatives from Nassau BOCES and many school districts in the county gathered to announce progress made — and hopes for the future — for sharing services and saving money.
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Alex Costello
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3/9/11
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