The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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There’s still time to enjoy what’s left of the season and revel in that fleeting late August glow that Mother Nature provides. Our local parks are just the place to unwind and enjoy this time of year.
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By Karen Bloom
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8/28/13
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A group of teenagers found a way inside Levy-Lakeside Elementary School, off Merrick Road in Merrick, on July 28, according to Dr. Dominick Palma, the Merrick School District superintendent. The trespassing teens ran when they were approached by a school custodian, Palma said.
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By Brian Racow
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8/8/13
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I don’t know his name. We often cross paths as we run, as fast as we can, around the perimeter path at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick, a 1.7-mile seashell-coated road that encircles the 50-acre sanctuary.
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7/29/13
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Two signs designating Levy-Lakeside School’s front baseball field as Forever 9 Field, which the Merrick-North Merrick Little League hung in April without permission from the Merrick School District, will remain up for the rest of the year, the Merrick Board of Education decided on June 4.
The board also ruled that the Little League can apply in 2014 for permission to keep the signs up.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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6/12/13
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Last week, taxpayers across Long Island voted on their school districts’ proposed budgets. There are 124 school districts across Long Island, and 95 percent of their spending plans passed.
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5/31/13
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In Merrick
Norman J. Levy-Lakeside Elementary School, Babylon Road, Merrick, one block south of Merrick Road, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 21.
In North Merrick
Harold D. Fayette Elementary …
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5/16/13
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Elementary school classrooms can and should operate as “laboratories” for a more just world, teaching children values of tolerance and fairness and empowering them with confidence that they can effect change for good, according to an article that Levy-Lakeside School teachers Shari Dorfman and Ruth Rosenberg wrote for Social Studies and the Young Learner, a peer-edited academic journal published by the National Council for the Social Studies.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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4/24/13
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Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick celebrated the written word last Friday with its annual Community Read-Aloud, at which elected and community leaders are invited in to read to classes.
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3/12/13
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Students at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick lent helping hands to a good cause last Thursday, when in two hours’ time, they made 1,430 sandwiches for homeless people and Hurricane Sandy victims.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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2/25/13
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