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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring the spread of the illness nationwide and offering resources to residents online.

More than a dozen children across New York state have contracted enterovirus EV-D68, a potentially deadly virus that causes severe inflammation of the respiratory tract, according to state Department … more

By Julie Mansmann | 10/9/14

Kennedy High School, which has a 99 percent graduation rate, was named one of the 25 "Best of the Northeast" by the Daily Beast

Central schools make Daily Beast best list

All three Bellmore-Merrick high schools were named to The Daily Beast’s “Top High Schools of 2014” national ranking, Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials said … more

By Julie Mansmann | 9/17/14

Wendy Tepfer, front, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, is among the leaders sponsoring the first Bellmore-Merrick Drug Takeback Day on Sept. 27. She was joined at a meeting of the Bellmore-Merrick Heroin Task Force last Friday by, from left, Donna Nogid, legislative assistant to Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg; Pat Gleiberman, young adult librarian at the Bellmore Memorial Library; and Lisa Finn, director of clinical services and community outreach for Phoenix House.

Bellmore-Merrick Parent Center, heroin task force sponsoring drug takeback

Every day, 2,500 teens across the country, ages 12 to 17, get high off prescription drugs, and 70 percent of them obtain their narcotics from family members or friends –– most often by swiping them from bathroom medicine cabinets, according to Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/10/14

The chart shows the passing rates of North Bellmore students on state-mandated exams.

Fifth of N. Bellmore students opt out of exams

An average of 20 percent of North Bellmore School District students in grades three to six refused to take state-mandated English Language Arts and math exams last spring, according to district … more

By Julie Mansmann | 9/10/14

Coaches Tom Simone, Todd Knowles, Luke Tarantino, Kelly McArdle and Joe Lanzisera stood behind players Kaitlin May McArdle, Sydney Lamagra, Makayla McNulty, Julia Tarantino, Brianna Morse, Hannah Aievoli, Kirsten Knowles, Jessie Lanzisera, Jenna Giliberti and Christina Burns at Wright Park in Dunkirk, N.Y., where New York’s Little League tournament took place this year.

Softball team is among top four in state

The Lady Rebels, a North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League travel softball team, were contenders in New York’s Little League tournament again this year after winning district and section championships. more

9/4/14

This chart shows George E. Sansoucy, P.E., LLC’s forecast of the cost to operate New York American Water Company, Inc. and two theoretical municipal water authorities through 2044. Sansoucy predicted that municipal water would be more costly in either scenario.

Water authority releases study

In 2010, people in Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh and Seaford paid nearly five times more for tap water than people in East Meadow, Levittown, Lido Beach and Uniondale, according to an engineering firm working for the Water Authority of Southeastern Nassau County. The first four communities got their water from the company Long Island American Water. The second four got theirs from the Town of Hempstead ... more

By Brian Racow | 8/27/14

Special education students enrolled in the North Bellmore School District’s extended school year made cards for Danny Nickerson, a 6-year-old Massachusetts boy who has an inoperable brain tumor.

From North Bellmore, with love

Chrissy Egan was one of the millions of people around the world to hear Danny Nickerson’s story two weeks ago on Facebook. Family members of the Foxboro, Mass., boy said on social media pages and … more

By Julie Mansmann | 8/7/14

Comptroller: N. Bellmore should have crafted tighter budgets

North Bellmore School District officials have responded to an audit report issued by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli on July 2 that suggests former administrators overestimated … more

By Julie Mansmann | 7/16/14

Emilie D’Andrilli conducted Dinkelmeyer’s fifth- and sixth-grade chorus, which received a silver medal at the festival.

Making sweet music in North Bellmore

Jordan Gluck, who was in sixth grade at Dinkelmeyer Elementary School this past year, said she was a bit scared when she arrived at the New York State School Music Association Major Organization … more

By Julie Mansmann | 7/16/14

Word of Mouth, the Merrick Avenue Middle School a cappella group, sang at the “Merricks Make Music” concert on June 3 at the North Merrick Public Library.

A little rain couldn’t stop the music

The North Merrick Public Library hosted a music festival on June 3 that starred many up-and-coming musicians: elementary school to high school students from the community. more

6/19/14

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