The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education kicked off the 2015-16 school year on July 14 by electing Skip Haile as president and Janet Goller as vice president. more

Jake Thomas and Alex Vargas, both 21, played baseball together in 2011 at Calhoun High School under legendary coach Joe Corea. In 2010, Thomas led the Colts squad that captured the Nassau County Class AA title. In 2012, Vargas played a critical role in the Colts’ victory at the Long Island Class AA championship. Major League teams recently drafted them both. more

Kennedy High School seniors closed one chapter of their lives and began a new one at their graduation on June 28 at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury. more

Glitter and glitz were in ample supply last Thursday in Bellmore-Merrick as high school seniors gathered at friends’ homes before prom. Calhoun High School’s prom was held at the Bridgeview … more

Calhoun High School held its 56th annual graduation ceremony last Sunday at the NYCB Theater in Westbhury. More than 300 seniors received their diplomas from Principal Nicole Hollings and Board of Education trustees. more

When ticking off the many and varied phys. ed. programs that Saul Lerner has brought to the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, you quickly realize what a profound and lasting impact he has had on the lives of thousands of students, his colleagues say. Among the programs are girls’ lacrosse, boys’ badminton, bicycling in gym classes, and first aid/cardiopulmonary resuscitation for all students, a program begun with the Merrick-based Robbie Levine Foundation, to name just a few. Lerner is the Central District’s director of physical education, health, athletics, driver’s education and adult education. After 19 years in the district and 35 years in education, Lerner, 58, will retire on June 30. “It’s been a great run,” he said during an interview last week, “and I loved every minute of it, and I love the community.” more

More than 300 eighth-graders were recently inducted into the Junior National Honor Society at Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue middle schools. more

Calhoun High School teacher Alana Baard describes her classes as never-ending pajama parties. No kidding. Pajama parties. “Everyone is so eager to learn,” she says. more

Susan Schwartz, an elementary school teacher who served on the Merrick School District Board of Education for 15 years and the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education for eight years, will retire from the boards at the end of June. more

The teenager, a student at Calhoun High School, had a “severe case of alcohol poisoning,” said Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings in an email to parents on June 12. He drank at a “large gathering” of Calhoun seniors in the woods between Brookside School and the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Hollings wrote. more