The District 13 Board of Education accepted the resignation of Daniel Rothbard on Tuesday night, the teacher accused of sexual relations with underage girls in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
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Andrew Hackmack
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4/28/10
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The next meeting of the Merrick Gables Association will be held at the Merrick Public Library on Tuesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m., and special districts will be the main focus of this session.
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4/23/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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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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Sari Zeidler
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4/22/10
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The baseball season officially opened for the North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League last weekend. The annual kick-off parade was held on Saturday, and started behind Saw Mill Road School and ended at Gunther Field.
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Deirdre Krasula
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4/20/10
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Twenty-two people, including two Bellmore men and one Bellmore woman, were arrested last Tuesday and early Wednesday morning and charged in connection with a nationwide quaalude trafficking and distribution ring that went from Baldwin to Brooklyn to California.
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Sari Zeidler
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4/15/10
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Whether students like it or not, summer school isn't going anywhere in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School district. Superintendent Henry Kiernan announced at a March 24 budget review meeting …
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by Deirdre Krasula
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3/31/10
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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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Updated: 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Police have arrested a North Merrick School District custodian, Joseph Latona, 27, and charged him with sale and possession of heroin.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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3/17/10
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Merrick School District officials are reporting that power and heat have been restored at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick and that classes would resume there on Tuesday. The school had been closed on Monday owing to a power outage after the weekend's big nor'easter
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3/16/10
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