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Claudia Borecky, second from left, president of the North Merrick Civic Association, and David Denenberg, a former Nassau County legislator from Merrick, led a news conference last Thursday to urge the State Department of Environmental Conservation to take over cleanup of an underground chemical plume caused by Grumman and the Navy. They were joined by Dr. Dean Hart, of Brookville, and Audrey Ciuffo and David Stonehill, both of Merrick.

A half-dozen Nassau County environmental and civic activists, most from Merrick, came to Bethpage Community Park on April 21 –– the day before Earth Day –– to call on the state to accelerate efforts to clean up a massive chemical plume that has crept for more than seven decades from Bethpage toward South Oyster Bay. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/25/16

Seven arrested on drug charges

The Nassau County Police Department, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Agency reported the arrests of several individuals between April 20 and April 23 for drug-related charges. more

4/25/16

Obamacare’s deleterious effect on the war on drugs

Not only is Obamacare a poor health care plan from a policy perspective, but now many doctors and health care professionals believe that it is contributing to one of the worst epidemics facing this nation, our state and Long Island: opioid addiction more

4/21/16

Merokean Susan Saban is working With Temple Beth Am Rabbi Ronald Brown to create a new religious education program for children with special needs. Saban, a Temple Beth Am member, is the assistant director of pupil personnel services for the Herricks School District.

Remaking Jewish education for kids with special needs

One day not long ago, Merokean Susan Saban was sitting in a holiday service at Temple Beth Am of Bellmore-Merrick. A mother of a child with developmental disabilities kept getting up to attend to the boy, who was disrupting the service. Saban’s heart sunk. She knows well the challenges faced by children with disabilities and their families. She is the assistant director of pupil personnel services in the Herricks School District, and is charged with providing services for children with special needs. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/20/16

Jenna Greenwald, front, and Jessica Rakowski finished a fence that the Kennedy High School Animal Advocates Club recently built at Jones Beach State Park to protect the piping plover, an endangered species.

Protecting the piping plover with a fence

The Animal Advocates club at Kennedy High School in Bellmore lent a hand to piping plovers, which are on the Endangered Species List, by spending the morning of March 26 stretching out two miles of wire to mark the birds’ nesting area at Jones Beach State Park and protect them from beach-goers. more

By Alexandra Brinton | 4/13/16

N.J. man admits to stealing $1.6M from Bellmore-Merrick EMS

A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to stealing roughly $1.6 million from the Bellmore-Merrick Emergency Services, for which he served as treasurer and president at various times during the seven … more

By Scott Brinton | 4/12/16

This primary day, there’s a lot on the line

For the first time since the bad old days of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, some New York voters will be able to vote twice on the same day. But this year, on Primary Day, it will be legal. more

4/7/16

State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages commended State Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky for publicly denouncing OTB’s plan for VLTs at Belmont Park. Steve Smirti/Herald

Dozens rally against VLTs at Belmont

Nearly 100 people gathered at Gate 3 of Belmont Park on Saturday to urge state lawmakers to support two bills that would prohibit electronic gaming on Long Island. The rally, organized by the … more

By Steve Smirti | 3/29/16

Booker T. Gibson, beloved music teacher, has died at 85.

Booker Gibson, beloved music teacher, dies at 85

By his own admission, Booker T. Gibson wasn’t the most athletic student at Mepham High School in Bellmore in the 1940s, so becoming popular at a school that placed a high value on success in sports –– in particular, in wrestling –– was no easy feat. But Gibson could play boogie-woogie piano, and at the time this highly rhythmic style of the blues ruled the airwaves. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/17/16

Steve Rose, center, founder of the Bellmore-Merrick Family Project, was honored at the March 2 Central District Board of Education meeting. Joining him were, at left, John DeTommaso, the Central District superintendent, Janet Goller, the Board of Education vice president, to Rose’s immediate left, and his family.

Central Board honors Family Project founder

For 40 years, the Family Project has been aiding children with developmental disabilities and their families from throughout Bellmore-Merrick. In celebration of the group’s fourth decade, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District honored its founder and coordinator, Steve Rose, at the March 2 Board of Education meeting. more

3/10/16

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