Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District students got off to a fresh start last week as they entered buildings that were updated and upgraded over the summer, thanks to a $49.89 million bond that voters passed in December 2013.
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By Daine Taylor
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9/16/16
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District recently welcomed 25 new staff members for the 2016-17 school year. They gathered on Aug. 29 for a special orientation to familiarize themselves with …
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9/7/16
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Nassau County and Sanitation District 2 worked together to purchase and install eight Bigbelly solar-powered trash receptacles throughout the district, six of them in Baldwin. The receptacles, which …
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By Nakeem Grant
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9/7/16
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A Merrick family doctor is vowing to fight charges that he illegally distributed the addictive pain medication oxycodone to patients, two of whom died after overdosing on the narcotic, according to federal prosecutors. He pleaded not guilty in federal court on Aug. 30.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/2/16
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When I was a kid growing up in Island Park, “water play” was a sprinkler set up on the front yard of the family lucky enough to have enough property to grow a lawn.
A couple of generations later . . .
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8/24/16
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The Elmont School District has agreed to comply with nonprofit transparency group Reclaim New York’s Freedom of Information Law request for records of the district’s 2014 expenditures after …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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In each of the Bellmore-Merrick Central District’s five schools, students’ desks are now stacked in halls beside cardboard boxes full of textbooks and teachers’ knickknacks, and …
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By Scott Brinton
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7/26/16
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As current North Merrick Superintendent David Feller has been preparing to retire in recent months, the Board of Education searched for a new superintendent, finally appointing one at its last meeting. The board named Dr. Cynthia Seniuk to the post.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/21/16
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A girl walks into a bar. Actually, a woman of a certain age walks into a coffee shop. To be perfectly honest, I walked into a coffee shop in Amsterdam . . .
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7/20/16
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More than 400 animals –– many exotic, some endangered –– were removed by officials from the Bellmore home of Gary Gruber, according to the Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty and the …
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By Scott Brinton
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6/22/16
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