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

After Lynbrook’s seven-goal lead through three quarters of Monday’s Nassau Class B boys’ lacrosse playoff game was cut to four by visiting Kennedy with just over nine minutes remaining in regulation, the Owls found another gear. more

Two more “stranger” incidents have been reported in the Merrick-Bellmore area, one involving members of the Calhoun High School boys’ track team on Thursday afternoon and another involving teenagers walking home from school on Friday afternoon. more

While the baseball team at Calhoun was busy winning two of the past three Nassau Class AA titles, the softball program was flying under the radar, so to speak. However, the girls have made a name for themselves on the diamond this spring. more

Needing one win in the final regular-season series against Port Washington to clinch third place and more importantly, a berth in the upcoming Nassau County Class AA baseball playoffs, Mepham made things easy by winning the first game, 3-0. more

Mepham graduate Victoria Gunnels and Long Beach graduate Kelley Jansen helped Molloy capture its third straight East Coast Conference softball title. more

The Bellmore-Merrick Cougars sixth-grade travel basketball team recently won the Division 1 Super League Championship in double overtime, 60-59. It was the first time that a sixth-grade team took the Super League crown. more

Austin Hecker and his mom, Heidi Hecker, of Merrick, were watching TV one day when they saw American speed skater and Olympic champion Apolo Ohno making a guest appearance on the talk show “The Doctors.” Ohno was discussing his experience with exercise induced bronchospasm, also known as exercise induced asthma, a medical condition characterized by tightening of breathing airways due to extra production of mucus during exercise. more

Robbie’s Run, which commemorates 9-year-old Robbie Levine of Merrick, who died of heart failure in 2005 while rounding the bases during a Little League practice, attracted more than 1,700 participants between the annual event’s 5K, mile- and half-mile races through Merrick streets and fields on Sunday. As part of the festivities, Joseph Rocco, president of the Merrick-North Little League announced that the league was naming its front baseball field at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick as the “Forever 9: Robbie Levine Foundation Field." more