Famed New York Jet Curtis Martin will appear at John. F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore for a fundraiser to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims on Monday, May 20, student government officials said.
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Rosemarie Corless
The choice of Rosemarie Corless for the North Bellmore Board of Education is an easy one. Through her work as a nurse practitioner in the pediatric cancer department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, school trustee and PTA volunteer, Corless has demonstrated that she cares deeply about children, which is the most important quality that we like to see in a Board of Education candidate.
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Janet Goller
From time to time, Board of Education meetings can get heated, and at those intense moments, when tempers are flaring, Trustee Janet Goller can always be counted on to provide a quiet, calm voice of reason amid the tumult.
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Dr. Stanley J. Berke, one of the founding partners of OCLI in Lynbrook, has opened a new eye care practice in Westbury. Berke held a “meet and greet” on …
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Two seats on the North Bellmore School District’ Board of Education are on the line in the May 21 election. In one race, incumbent JoAnn DeLauter faces challenger Frank LaMagra. North Bellmorites will have three options to chose from for the second seat: incumbent Rosemarie Corless, Peter Mayo or Greg Bashaw. The fate of the five candidates will be at the polls at Newbridge Road Elementary School.
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Although it happened more than 40 years ago, teacher Barbara Smith can remember hearing quacking one afternoon when classes at the St. Marks Avenue School –– now the Charles A. Reinhard Center for Early Childhood Education –– ended for the day. One of her students returned to the building, set among brand new homes, with a basket that had a duck in it.
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On April 15, 1985, 15-year-old Jason Gruen was walking into Manhasset High School, headed to class, when his heart suddenly stopped and he dropped to the ground, dead. A heart defect had gone undetected. His mother, Susan Gruen Helsinger, who now makes her home in Merrick, was devastated. She still is.
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Prior to the excitement of last Sunday’s Long Island Marathon, there was complete silence for 26 seconds — one second for each mile in a marathon. The moment of silence was held to commemorate the victims of the bombings during the Boston Marathon on April 15.
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More than 8,000 runners participated in this year’s Long Island Marathon, which winded through central and northern Nassau County streets, before concluding in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.
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