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The playground at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick. Local parents say they worry about teenagers breaking beer bottles and leaving drug paraphernalia on area playgrounds after school has let out, particularly late at night.

Ass't superintendent addresses school safety after hours

At the June 29 South Merrick Community Civic Association meeting, Merrick School District Assistant Superintendent for Business and Technology Dr. Christine Grucci discussed a pesky problem plaguing schools after hours — teenagers. more

Sari Zeidler | 7/2/10

Birch School quarters project raises $12K for Interfaith Nutrition Network

Students at Birch Elementary School in Merrick raised $12,000 in quarters to donate to the Interfaith Nutrition Network, which donates food to those in need on Logn Island. more

Sari Zeidler | 7/1/10

Assistant Superintendent Grucci, SMCCA to discuss school safety

Merrick School District administrators have had it up to here with teens who turn elementary schools into after-hours hangouts. more

Sari Zeidler | 6/22/10

Weighing phys. ed. options in N. Merrick

Elementary school children in North Merrick thinking of spending recess strolling the schoolyard with friends may have to think again. more

Sari Zeidler | 6/16/10

June Irvin, former superintendent, fondly remembered

June Irvin, a former North Merrick School District superintendent, Old Mill Road School principal and active community member, died on April 27 of natural causes. She was 76. more

Sari Zeidler | 5/4/10

Louis Kruh with his grandchildren. Kruh was known throughout the Merrick-Bellmore community as an advocate for children.

Louis Kruh, war hero, community activist, dies at 87

Louis Kruh of Merrick, a decorated World War II hero, 30-year veteran of the Merrick School District Board of Education, former president of the Bellmore-Merrick School District board, and longtime advertising executive turned attorney, died after a long illness on May 1. He was 87. more

Scott Brinton | 5/4/10

Police arrest N. Merrick custodian for heroin sale

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. more

Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton | 3/17/10

Students in the North Merrick School District are having a blast learning with SMART Boards.

It's a SMART world in N. Merrick schools

It's a safe bet that any dust settling on the blackboard in Lisa Drewes's classroom at Fayette Elementary School in North Merrick is a byproduct of abandonment rather than chalk. The fourth-grade room is outfitted with one of 15 SMART Boards in the North Merrick School District, a new tool that teachers are crediting with revolutionizing teaching methods and making conventional blackboards obsolete. "I put my schedule on it every day, aside from that I don't write on my blackboard at all," Drewes said. more

Sari Zeidler | 11/5/09

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