The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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Two North Merrick students’ interactions with strangers led to police reports this week, according to an email that John DeTommaso, superintendent of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, sent to parents of district students on Sept. 11.
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9/13/13
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Long Island’s high schools have finished honoring the members of the class of 2013, and many of those newly minted graduates are now looking toward college in the fall.
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6/26/13
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By my rough calculations, our children spend some 17,640 hours in school, kindergarten through high school.
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6/6/13
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Students and teachers involved with Mepham High School’s service organizations walked as a group on May 22, when the clubs hosted a walk-a-thon to aid Boston Marathon bombing victims.
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By Julie Mansmann
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5/31/13
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The dichotomy between inBloom’s website, featuring photos of smiling elementary-age children seated beside young teachers, tablets in hand, and its seven-page Privacy and Security Policy, full of legalese, could not be more stark.
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5/16/13
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John F. Kennedy High School’s annual Class Night festivities had a “Superbowl moment,” according to Student Government Adviser Bradley Seidman. Toward the end of the evening on March 7, a brief power outage halted activities, as was the case at the National Football League’s championship game last month.
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/13/13
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The administration and staff at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore recently named a student from each academic department to receive “Student of the Month” recognition.
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1/31/13
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Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest.
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1/24/13
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Wellington C. Mepham High School students made the auditorium stage their runway last week for a fashion show fundraiser.
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By Julie Mansmann
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12/6/12
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