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Owing to possible blizzard-like conditions, all classes and activities in all five Bellmore-Merrick area school districts have been canceled on Wednesday, Feb. 10. On Tuesday evening, weather prognosticators were predicting more than a half-foot of snow, prompting the cancellations.
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2/9/10
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The North Bellmore Board of Education recently approved a resolution to present a nearly $8.8 million bond referendum to residents for repairs at all six district schools on March 24.
School officials said the bond amount is roughly $30 million lower than one that voters narrowly defeated in 2008. The first bond vote followed two years of deliberations by the district’s Facilities Committee.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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Across Bellmore and North Bellmore, school staff members, students and their families are joining forces to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
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Deirdre Krasula
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2/4/10
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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials are weighing whether to eliminate summer school in 2010 owing to $2.2million in potential cuts to the district’s state aid package.
The cuts, if approved by the state Legislature, would reduce Bellmore-Merrick’s total aid by nearly 12 percent.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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The Bellmore Board of Education approved a new four-year teachers’ contract in an unopposed vote at a Jan. 19 meeting. The contract will run through June 30, 2013, and includes salary increases of 2.2 percent over the first two years and 2.25 percent over the last two.
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Deirdre Krasula
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1/29/10
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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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Al D'Amato
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1/29/10
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Federal stimulus money allowed Bellmore-Merrick school districts to patch holes in their budgets caused by state aid cuts last spring, but that may not be the case entirely this year. In December, the cash-strapped state used part of its 2010-11 federal stimulus money to prevent midyear reductions in state aid for education in the current school year, said Matt Anderson, a state Budget Office spokesman.
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Deirdre Krasula
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1/26/10
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Seventh-graders at Sacred Heart School in North Merrick recently collected gently used blankets and coats for the homeless. The coats and blankets were donated to the Mary Brennan Inn for distribution to those in need.
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1/26/10
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In the center of the Calhoun High School gymnasium, Heather West, executive chef at Monterey in Long Beach and season two winner of "Hell’s Kitchen," was grilling lightly seasoned turkey burgers with senior Katie Smith.
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Scott Brinton
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1/22/10
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Last week I presented the first installment of an interview with John Halligan, a father whose son was a victim of school bullying and committed suicide. The interview is a natural outgrowth of a recent mini-series that ran in the Principal's Office about bullying and anti-bullying programs.
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Steve Kussin
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1/22/10
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