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Motorcyclist Joel McClain, 23, of Freeport, was killed in Merrick on Sunday when his bike collided with a Lexus on Sunrise Highway.

A Freeport motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a 2015 Lexus sedan driven by a 68-year-old man in Merrick on Sunday at 4:42 p.m., according to Nassau County police. more

By Scott Brinton | 12/14/15

Jolly Old St. Nick swung by the Merricks last Sunday, paying a two-hour visit to the gazebo at Veterans Memorial Plaza, beside the Merrick train station. Joining in the fun were Kimberly Chacon and her daughter Natalia, who recently moved to the community.

Santa swings by the Merricks

Santa Claus took two hours out of his hyper-busy schedule to swing by the gazebo at Merrick’s Long Island Rail Road station to meet with children and hear their fondest wishes last Sunday. more

By Scott Brinton | 12/9/15

53-year Merrick F.D. volunteer dies at 71

Jeffrey B. Wortmann, a 53-year volunteer for the Merrick Fire Department who trained many of the department’s current leaders, died on Nov. 22 after a long illness. Wortmann, who had been named an honorary chief of the department, was 71. more

By Scott Brinton | 12/3/15

Candles burned brightly in Paris in remembrance of nearly 130 people who were killed in terrorist attacks in the City of Light last Friday.

Worry and anger in Bellmore-Merrick after Paris terror attacks

On Sept. 11, 2001, Bellmorite Vince Proto was marching warily on Broadway in Manhattan, from the World Trade Center to Brooklyn, shortly after Al Qaeda terrorists crashed two planes into the Twin Towers. Proto worked for Deutsche Bank, at 1 Liberty Plaza, in the towers’ shadow. more

By Scott Brinton | 11/18/15

A van transporting five disabled passengers ran off the road in North Merrick on Tuesday.

Van carrying disabled passengers crashes on Southern State Parkway

A van carrying five disabled passengers careered off the Southern State Parkway in North Merrick around 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 and crashed into a tree, according to James Rogers, the North Merrick Fire Department chief. more

By Scott Brinton | 11/12/15

Merrick Fire Department volunteers gathered at a firefighters' memorial at Merrick Avenue and Sunrise Highway, in downtown Merrick, to remember their brothers lost in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, along with all of the nearly 3,000 victims who perished that terrible day.

Merrick F.D. pays homage to 9/11 fallen

Ronnie Gies Sr., a New York City firefighter who served as a Merrick Fire Department chief in the early 1990s, used to bring his three boys –– Tommy, Ronnie and Bobby –– with him wherever he went, recalled Mike Abrams, a former Merrick F.D. chief, who was deputy chief under Gies. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/12/15

N. Merrick F.D. rescues 5 after Meadowbrook Parkway crash

North Merrick firefighters used the Jaws of Life to rip the roof and doors off a car to get at passengers who were trapped inside the vehicle after they ran off a northbound lane of the Meadowbrook Parkway on Sept. 7 around 4:30 p.m., according to James Rogers, the North Merrick Fire Department chief. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/10/15

Merrick Fire Dep't to host 9/11 ceremony on Friday

The Merrick Fire Department will hold a memorial service to commemorate fallen members of the MFD who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. more

9/9/15

An explosion injured a man and tore apart a boat in south Merrick on Sunday. The Merrick Fire Department was called in to extinguish the blaze.

Man burned when boat explodes in south Merrick

Gasoline vapors ignited as a man was working on a small boat moored at a south Merrick dock on Sunday at around 5:20 p.m., causing an explosion that burned him and sent him hurtling into the water, said Ron Luparello, the Merrick Fire Department’s spokesman. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/17/15

A Calhoun High School student suffered a “severe case of alcohol poisoning” after drinking at a party last Wednesday night in the woods behind Brookside School in North Merrick, according to Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings. The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, which oversees Calhoun, had asked Uniondale company Summit Security Services to keep watch that night at Brookside, said Central District Superintendent John DeTommaso. Above, a Summit SUV was parked that night outside Brookside as emergency vehicles’ lights flashed at the woods’ edge.

EMTs pull drunken teen from ravine

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

By Brian Racow | 6/17/15

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