Some of baseball's biggest luminaries made their way to Merrick on Monday to honor Alena Korins, a 9-year-old Birch Elementary School student who won first prize in the Scholastic and Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson Breaking Barriers Essay Contest.
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4/22/10
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Elected leaders, fire officials, school principals, librarians and Board of Education trustees converged on Birch Elementary on Wednesday morning for school’s the annual Community Read In. The event is intended to stimulate the children’s interest in –– what else? –– reading.
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3/17/10
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The Merrick School District recently took part in National Foreign Language Week. Students in grades three to six, all of whom are taking Spanish, voluntarily participated in the national "Spread Your Wings: Learn a New Language" poster and essay contest.
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3/12/10
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At the Merrick Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, school officials announced that Birch School will soon have a new principal with a familiar face -- Vice Principal Kerri Schlissel.
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Sari Zeidler
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2/10/10
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Students in the Merrick School district recently teamed up with State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. to help children at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola by taking part in his annual “Extend the Holidays” toy drive.
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12/21/09
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