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Roberta Sanders, at 86, was teacher, trustee

Roberta Joan (Frost) Sanders died peacefully at home at the age of 86. She and her husband raised their family in Merrick, where Sanders was a resident for more than 40 years and was active in many civic and community activities, including serving on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education. more

1/8/15

Students from MephaM High School’s Senior Experience program visited Birch and Norman J. Levy-Lakeside elementary schools in Merrick to become ‘reading buddies’ to first-graders.

Mepham seniors spread love of literacy

Children attending two Merrick schools recently received two gifts from Mepham High School students: a buddy and a book. Students in Mepham’s Senior Experience program visited Birch and Norman … more

By Julie Mansmann | 1/8/15

Volunteers, founders and award recipients of Circle of Hope – a Merrick-based nonprofit organization that aims to help individuals and their families coping with the effects of breast cancer and other illnesses – gathered to celebrate one another’s strength and service in the face of disease at the group’s “Journey for a Purpose” benefit on Dec. 9.

Benefit helps spread cancer awareness

Folks from throughout Bellmore-Merrick celebrated stories of survival and service at Circle of Hope’s “Journey for a Purpose” benefit for individuals coping with breast cancer and other … more

By Julie Mansmann | 12/17/14

Grand Avenue Middle School science teacher Kenneth Abbott was congratulated by Bellmore-Merrick Central District Board of Education Trustee Nina Lanci and Superintendent John DeTommaso at the Dec. 3 Board of Education meeting.

Grand Avenue teacher recognized

Grand Avenue Middle School science teacher Kenneth Abbot was honored by the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education at its Dec. 3 meeting.Abbot was recently awarded the … more

12/17/14

The Bellmore Braves 9U football team became the first squad in the organization’s history to win a title recently.

Braves grab first championship title

Thanks to a group of athletic 9-year-olds, the Bellmore Braves Football organization has captured its first title.The 9U Bellmore Braves Football team, sponsored by the Bellmore-Merrick Youth … more

By Julie Mansmann | 12/17/14

Mepham High School science teacher Lee Mattes used indicators to mark each of his beakers and demonstrate the importance of proper labeling to maintain safety in a laboratory.

School districts have good chemistry

Students in the Bellmore School District recently had the chance to work with a local high school teacher to further their understanding of the sciences. Fourth-graders in Lauren McHale’s … more

By Julie Mansmann | 12/4/14

Holocaust survivor Evelyn Pike Rubin, of Jericho, came to Calhoun High School recently to speak with students about her wartime experiences. Her family hid out in Shanghai to escape the Nazi Gestapo.

From 'Ghetto Shanghai' to L.I.

The train trip still haunts Evelyn Pike Rubin more than 75 years later. It was the winter of 1939. Pike Rubin, an only child who was 8½ at the time, was steaming from Breslau, in Nazi Germany, to Naples, Italy, where she was to board a cruise ship, the Hakusaki Maru, bound for Japanese-occupied Shanghai. more

By Scott Brinton | 11/26/14

Mepham senior Elizabeth Rosen attempted to drive while texting in the AT&T ‘It Can Wait’ Texting and Driving Simulator.

Mepham hosts ‘It Can Wait’ program

In recognition of National Teen Driver Safety Week, Mepham High School officials recently teamed up with Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice to host AT&T’s “It Can Wait” assembly -- … more

By Julie Mansmann | 11/13/14

Members of Bellmore JFK Alumni, Inc., Kennedy High School’s alumni association, recently cut the ribbon to celebrate the opening of the Cougar Walk of Recognition.

Kennedy opens Cougar Walk of Recognition

Taking on an almost human dimension, Kennedy High School’s new Cougar Walk of Recognition was born after nine months in development. Members of Bellmore JFK Alumni Inc., who created the walkway … more

By Julie Mansmann | 11/5/14

Young Jedis-in-training followed instructions carefully so they could master the art of lightsaber use at a recent special program at the Bellmore Memorial Library.

It’s good to be a library geek in Bellmore-Merrick

New York Comic Con may have been held two weeks ago, but local folks were still able cosplay, attend panels and immerse themselves in popular culture at the Bellmore Memorial Library’s first-ever … more

By Julie Mansmann | 10/29/14

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