Two newcomers were voted onto the North Merrick Board of Education on Tuesday night.
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By Erik Hawkins
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5/17/17
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Four candidates are vying for two seats this year on the North Merrick Board of Education — two longtime incumbents and two newcomers. Trustee Jonathan Butler and Vice President Lisa Katz are seeking new terms against their challengers, Ed Corona and Tracey Miller, respectively.
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5/12/17
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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials this year kept the budget not only within the state-mandated tax-levy cap, but well under it, at 2.98 percent.
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5/12/17
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John Ferrara, the six-year incumbent trustee in the North Bellmore School District, faces opponent Erica Wilson this year. The Herald endorses Ferrara in this race.
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5/12/17
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Three members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced today for brutally stabbing, beating and kidnapping a member of the Bloods street gang who had entered the window of a Valley Stream home to collect his girlfriend’s belongings in March 2016.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/10/17
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Fourteen people, including an Elmont man, have been indicted for their alleged roles in running a “large-scale” heroin ring in Nassau, Queens and Brooklyn, according to District Attorney Madeline Singas.
Much of the heroin was sold in Long Beach, Hicksville and Levittown. The Rockville Centre Police Department was among the units that helped bust the ring, Singas said.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/6/17
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A Roosevelt man was sentenced four to 12 years in prison on May 5 for a fatal car crash that killed his girlfriend, Lakeview resident Diamond Hawkins, in 2015.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/5/17
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The governor’s recently passed 2017-2018 budget includes a healthy increase in state aid for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District.
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By Erik Hawkins
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4/13/17
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Officials in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District are looking for the public's OK to sell the Jerusalem Avenue school building to the Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
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By Erik Hawkins
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3/20/17
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Last Friday, President Trump moved to eliminate the last remnants of the Obama administration, prosecutors at the Justice Department. The president ordered the 46 holdover U.S. attorneys to . . .
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3/16/17
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