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The 13 sixth-graders in the Merrick School District’s Alternative Program for Enriching Experiences recently spent more than four months drawing blueprints for and meticulously crafting toothpick bridges. They even visited the Center for Architecture in Manhattan to study bridge construction, from beam to cantilever, truss and arch bridges, before undertaking their projects.
Then the students destroyed their creations.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/20/14
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John Fried, of Frederick, Md., a longtime principal of Camp Avenue Elementary School in North Merrick, died on Feb. 28 in Wilmington, N.C., after a long illness. He was 86 years old.
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3/20/14
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The guiding philosophy of the North Merrick School District’s theatre arts program is, in a word, “inclusiveness,” according to Joyce Kelley, a sixth-grade teacher at Fayette School and the program’s director, choreographer and co-founder.
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By Brian Racow
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3/19/14
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The Cubs’ Cave (a.k.a. the back cafeteria) at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick was loud and messy last Friday –– but it was all for a good cause.
With assembly-line efficiency, Levy-Lakeside sixth-graders made more than 2,000 sandwiches for the homeless on Jan. 31. The donation, neatly packaged in big cardboard boxes, was shipped to the River Fund Shelter in Richmond Hill, Queens, said Sue Molloy, the sixth-grade teacher who annually organizes the sandwich-making exercise.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/4/14
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Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick recently held its annual Community Reading Day, at which local leaders read to classes for a half-hour in the morning and answered questions about their work. Among the participants were elected leaders, professionals and educators. Paul Laursen, contributing editor for the Merrick Herald Life, read to Robin Harris’s fourth-grade class. At back were Laursen, Harris, center, and Chatterton Principal Cindy Davidowitz.
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1/31/14
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New York State Assemblyman David McDonough recently visited Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick and presented the student council with an Assembly Citation for participation in his Coats for Kids campaign.
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12/12/13
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For many Americans, it is hard to imagine that there are inhabited places around the globe, including tens of thousands of villages in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where there is no clean water to drink.
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By Brian Racow
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11/29/13
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John Tavares, 23, the New York Islanders’ star center, captain and one of the National Hockey League’s leading goal scorers, stood Tuesday morning facing a sea of raised hands wiggling for his attention. A teacher extended a microphone toward one of the eager children, who asked, “Is hockey a difficult sport?”
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By Brian Racow
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11/29/13
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A group of children recently came across hypodermic needles on the ground in back of Levy-Lakeside School, according to Merrick Superintendent Dominick Palma.
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By Brian Racow
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10/11/13
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A year’s worth of preparation by members of the East Meadow Soccer Club culminated last weekend in a tournament in which 6,000 players competed on fields throughout Long Island.
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By David Weingrad
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8/28/13
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