An ad hoc group of students and high school parents converged on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education meeting Sept. 2 to call on district officials to reconsider their 2007 stance against synthetic-turf football fields at Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools. Roughly 250 parents and their children attended, with young people donning Merrick Police Activity League, Merrick-North Merrick Little League, Bellmore Braves and Calhoun football jerseys. In response to recent calls for artificial turf, Board of Education President Diane Seaman announced at the meeting that the district was forming a committee to explore ways to improve the high schools' football fields. She noted that the committee would look not only at synthetic turf, but also at ways to upgrade maintenance of the current grass fields. more

Ronald Gordon of Long Beach spent the summer working as an intern at the Nassau County District Attorney’s office. D.A. Kathleen Rice said Gordon, who is a student at Touro Law School, gained … more

To the dismay of many of the more than 200 concerned residents in attendance, the Lawrence Board of Education voted to close the Number Six School in Woodmere at its meeting on March 24. more