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Football players should wear black and blue
Do we really want to see the bruisers of the NFL play for pink? As Breast Cancer Awareness month begins . . . more
Cars by the beach
Vintage cars take to the beach at the annual event as fall gets underway. more
Veterans listened at a Merrick Board of Education meeting this spring.
Merrick district passes vets’ tax breaks
The Merrick Board of Education on Sept. 9 approved school tax exemptions for local veterans, ending months of rancor that followed the board’s choice last winter to miss a deadline to pass the exemptions for the 2014-15 school year. more
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Children of all ages had a blast on the many amusement rides at the Merrick Chamber of Commerce’s annual Fall Festival on Saturday and Sunday.
Video: Merrick Chamber fair delights thousands
Rain shut down the 24th annual Merrick Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival in the middle of the afternoon last Saturday. By Sunday morning, however, the rainclouds had moved northeast and the sun came out, offering a perfect day of family fun up and down Merrick Avenue, from the Long Island Rail Road station to the famed southwestern eatery R.S. Jones, at the corner of Loines Avenue. more
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A ceremony Tuesday morning celebrated the start of construction on a Little Whaleneck Road house that the charity Building Homes for Heroes will give to Kevin Vaughan, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, for free. Vaughan, who grew up in North Merrick, expressed many thanks to BHFH and the community, telling the crowd of about 150 people that it was “the greatest day of my life.”
Community support sustains a veteran, his family and friends
Kevin Vaughan, a Marine corporal who was wounded in Afghanistan and received a hero’s welcome when he returned home to North Merrick in 2012, will now receive a free house, courtesy of Building Homes for Heroes. more
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New York American Water Company, Inc., the company that supplies the area’s water, has an office at 60 Brooklyn Ave in Merrick.
Water study stresses present costs over future savings
The engineering firm that conducted a study of the area’s water system, analyzing the pros and cons of a municipal authority buying it from current operator New York American Water Company, Inc., went by one yardstick: ... more
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James O’Neill, a Vietnam War veteran and second vice commander of the Merrick American Legion, spoke this spring at a Merrick Board of Education meeting. The board has postponed a vote on veterans’ tax exemptions to Sept. 9.
School board postpones vets’ tax break vote
Merrick School District trustees said in May that they would put tax breaks for community veterans to a vote on Aug. 12, but the board has postponed the vote another 28 days to Sept. 9. more
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This chart shows George E. Sansoucy, P.E., LLC’s forecast of the cost to operate New York American Water Company, Inc. and two theoretical municipal water authorities through 2044. Sansoucy predicted that municipal water would be more costly in either scenario.
Water authority releases study
In 2010, people in Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh and Seaford paid nearly five times more for tap water than people in East Meadow, Levittown, Lido Beach and Uniondale, according to an engineering firm working for the Water Authority of Southeastern Nassau County. The first four communities got their water from the company Long Island American Water. The second four got theirs from the Town of Hempstead ... more
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The American Legion named Tim Messmer, second from left, the New York State Eagle Scout of the Year. He was congratulated by, from left, his father, Jim Messmer, a Troop 577 assistant scoutmaster; Frank Colon, the North Bellmore American Legion Post 1749 adjutant; and Charlie Kulins, the scoutmaster.
Teen named N.Y.’s Eagle Scout of the Year
Tim Messmer passed Bellmore Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2770’s hall on Bedford Avenue daily when he attended the nearby St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Regional School as a child. He didn’t … more
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LIOR LAMPERT
Lior Lampert, JFK senior, publishes book
The idea for “Little American Man,” a memoir by Lior Lampert, 17, of Merrick, came from a Lampert family Shabbat table conversation about a year ago. “We were talking about how, 12 years ago, I couldn’t even speak English, and now I’m going to college ... more
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