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. more

North Bellmore School District voters will decide whether they want to pass the elementary district’s proposed $50.5 million spending plan for the 2013-14 school year, which maintains all academic programs. more

The Bellmore School District will ask voters to approve of a budget for the 2013-14 academic year that has no decreases in spending for instruction of students, officials said. more

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. more

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. more

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. more

A longtime Bellmorite and two veteran trustees will be on this year’s ballot in the Bellmore School District Board of Education election. more

There is no doubt that the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District would not be the quality district that it is if it did not have excellent feeder elementary schools. more

Voting for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s $139.5 million budget should be a no-brainer for local residents. Newsweek recently ranked all three of the Central District’s high schools –– Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham –– among the top 600 high schools in the nation –– out of more than 26,000 high schools. We can only say, Wow! more

A group of a half-dozen Mepham High School parents spoke out at the May 8 Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education meeting, calling on the district to replace the old wooden visitors bleachers at the Mepham football field. A number of the seats have worn out or rotted through, and parents said they believe someone will eventually fall from the bleachers and get hurt unless they are fixed. more