Students of all ages, parents and educators at Calhoun High School shaved their heads for a cause on March 16.
The school's annual St. Baldrick's Foundation fundraiser brought in more than $30,000 to aid research into childhood cancers. The non-profit St. Baldrick's Foundation provided more than $12 million for research in 2009 alone.
Participants in a St. Baldrick's fundraiser shave their heads in "solidarity with kids fighting cancer" and collect pledges in return for taking it all off.
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Scott Brinton and Sari Zeidler
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3/24/10
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Students of all ages, parents and educators at Calhoun High School shaved it all -- all of their hair, that is -- for a cause on Tuesday.
The school's annual St. Baldrick's Foundation …
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by Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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For the second straight year, the Mepham High School kickline team placed first in two categories at the Scholastic Kickline Competition at Nassau Community College, earning the Champion of Champions title in the lyrical and pom categories after securing the highest cumulative score in a series of three scholastic competitions Feb. 28. The girls also placed first in kick in their division.
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Deirdre Krasula
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3/18/10
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Following their first-round victory, the academic team from John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore is moving on to round two of The Challenge, an academic quiz show designed to test students’ knowledge in a Jeopardy-style format.
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3/12/10
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Editor's note: Fleischer is a Herald student columnist at Kennedy High School, which has students from Bellmore and Merrick.
Senioritis is a word heard often in the halls of Kennedy High at this time of year. Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines senioritis as the "ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors as evidenced by tardiness, absences and lower grades."
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Stephanie Fleischer
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3/12/10
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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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Kennedy High School's annual Class Night, in which the four grades compete in good-natured, camp-like games, had a twist to it this year.
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Deirdre Krasula
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3/3/10
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Calhoun High School senior Kevin Harvey went into Wednesday’s Section VIII winter track state qualifier at St. Anthony’s High School in Huntington with one goal in mind –– place in the Top Three. Medaling there would get him to the state championship meet at Cornell on March 6.
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Scott Brinton
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2/26/10
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A fierce winter storm swept across Bellmore-Merrick Thursday into Friday, blanketing the community in snow yet again, this time dumping an estimated six to eight inches of the white stuff on the ground.
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Scott Brinton
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2/26/10
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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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