Students in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s five schools are working to tie the community together — literally and figuratively. Thanks to the brainstorming of a Kennedy … more

Bellmore and North Bellmore residents recently passed their public libraries’ 2015-16 budgets, in addition to choosing library board trustees.… more

The sun shone brightly on Saturday for a track and field meet that the Mepham High School community looks forward to every year. The Mepham boys’ and girls’ track teams welcomed scores of … more

Patrons of the North Bellmore Public Library will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote on a proposed $8.9 million bond to revamp the building, which officials said is out of space and out of date. … more

North Bellmorite C.J. Marie, 63, said turning 60 can be liberating for women like her. Noting that she has raised a family and completed her long teaching career, she explained that older adults are … more

Kennedy High School senior Beatrice Brown was recently named a 12th-grade winner in the American Museum of Natural History’s annual Young Naturalist Awards, a national contest. Brown won an all-expenses-paid overnight trip to New York City, where she will attend an awards ceremony at the museum and be given a special tour of its collections. Brown said she is excited to attend the ceremony because she has not been to the museum before. more

A Hurricane Sandy Storm Recovery Resource Fair will be held at Kennedy High School in Bellmore on Tuesday, May 26, from 5 to 9 p.m. more

Jews from Bellmore and Merrick came together on April 23 to celebrate Israel’s 67th birthday. more

Chaz Murray, 54, grew up in Merrick bounding through the woods near his home. He became a Boy Scout and went on to camp in the wild. He moved away when he turned 24 and returned seven years ago. On Sunday, he said he was horrified to see the derelict state into which Merrick’s forests off the Meadowbrook Parkway have fallen. Murray, a New York City paramedic, was one of 52 volunteers who came to the woods between Sunrise Highway and Meadowbrook Road in Merrick to clean up debris that had washed from farther north into the forest via the Meadow Brook or had been strewn there by vandals. He said he learned about the cleanup by reading the Merrick Herald Life. more

To help residents see proposed structural changes to the North Bellmore Public Library, architects released renderings of what the building would look like if an $8.9 million capital bond were to … more