Nassau County started video enforcement of school speed zones at 20 sites across the county, including two in the Bellmore-Merrick area, during the first week of September, when school began. Eventually, Nassau officials say they will install 56 cameras across the county.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/12/14
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It may have still felt like August on Tuesday, with temperatures reaching 89 degrees and the heat index in the mid-90s, but September had arrived. Merrick and North Merrick children walked through school doorways again on Sept. 2, the first day of the 2014-15 school year.
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9/3/14
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Three juveniles were arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with a small fire that was set at the Chatterton Elementary School playground sometime between Wednesday evening, Aug. 20, and Thursday morning, Aug. 21, according to Nassau County Police.
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8/21/14
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Dressed in a navy blue blazer and a flowered shirt, Dana Bermas gently knocked on the door of Melissa O’Donnell’s second-grade class at Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick on a recent Tuesday …
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By Casey Pinner
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6/19/14
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Smiling parents snapped photos of their children as they walked across the floor of Harold D. Fayette Elementary School’s general-purpose room. The occasion: an award ceremony for the young winners of the Keep-A-Merrick-A-Beautiful contest.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/12/14
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The halls of Roland A. Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick are adorned with student artwork: bulletin boards full of construction paper projects, crayon drawings and wobbly handwriting. On a recent Friday, children clad in flannel pants and superhero shirts for Pajama Day skipped down the hall in neat lines.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/4/14
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Birch and Chatterton elementary schools in the Merrick School District recently celebrated National Foreign Language Week with a poster and literary contest, for which all participating students received certificates. The students’ projects interpreted this year’s theme, “Don’t Let Learning a Language Slip Through Your Fingers!”
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5/8/14
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Who or what will move into the former Sunoco station property at the intersection of Merrick Road and Babylon Turnpike?
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By Brian Racow
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5/8/14
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Skaters from around the country gathered in North Bellmore on Saturday for the Bellmore-Merrick Roller Hockey League’s Player Appreciation Day. The 30-year-old league honored its leaders and …
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By Julie Mansmann
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5/1/14
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The South Merrick Community Civic Association is planning a special meeting on Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at the Merrick Road Park golf clubhouse to discuss the possibility of a 7-Eleven moving into an abandoned gas station at Babylon Turnpike and Merrick Road.
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4/25/14
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