Updated: 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Police have arrested a North Merrick School District custodian, Joseph Latona, 27, and charged him with sale and possession of heroin.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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3/17/10
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Students at Saw Mill Road School have seen a lot of heartache over the past year, but that hasn't stopped them from dancing.
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Deirdre Krasula
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3/9/10
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District took time out of its regular meeting on Wednesday to honor five outstanding students, as well as champion wrestlers, runners and an air rifle markswoman.
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Scott Brinton
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3/6/10
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is looking at a 3.58 percent increase in its 2010-11 operating budget when compared to the current year, meaning expenditures would jump from roughly $122 million to $127.3 million.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently completed audits of New York’s 733 public school districts and BOCES. The audits were part of a series of legislation following a scandal in the Roslyn School District in which administrators embezzled $11 million.
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2/25/10
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Budget issues continue to plague the Bellmore School District. At the Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, the upcoming budget season was high on the list of concerns.
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Deirdre Krasula
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2/10/10
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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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