Keyword: Gina Piskin
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education kicked off the 2015-16 school year on July 14 by electing Skip Haile as president and Janet Goller as vice president. more
Merrick School District trustees said in May that they would put tax breaks for community veterans to a vote on Aug. 12, but the board has postponed the vote another 28 days to Sept. 9. more
The Merrick Board of Education will vote in three months whether to grant community veterans school tax breaks, board members told a group of veterans, including leaders of Merrick’s American Legion Post 1282, at the board’s May 13 meeting. more
Trustees of the Merrick School District discussed granting recently enacted school tax exemptions for qualifying veterans, but they were hesitant to do so, according to Board President Gina Piskin and Merrick Superintendent Dr. Dominick Palma, who cited concerns about the exemptions’ cost to non-veteran homeowners and their apparent irrevocability. The board has now missed a Feb. 28 deadline to approve the veterans tax exemption. more
When residents in Merrick and North Merrick go to the polls on May 21 to vote on the budgets for next school year, they will also cast ballots for Board of Education candidates in both districts. The Merrick Board of Education oversees Birch, Chatterton and Levy-Lakeside schools, and the North Merrick Board of Education oversees Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road schools. more
Bellmorite Lorraine Piskin first appeared on the art scene when her photographs of the famous white horses of the southern regions of France graced the walls of the Bellmore Memorial Library in 2009. The grandmother of five then returned to the Camargue region of France to complete more research and photographs of the horses more
Voters overwhelmingly passed school budgets in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School, Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore and North Merrick school districts. The vote tally was as follows: more
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