Racing season has begun. more

Racing season has begun. Cub Scout Pack 96 of Wantagh and Pack 239 of Seaford each hosted their annual Pinewood Derby last Friday. more

Boy Scout Troop 656 and Christ Lutheran Church have a partnership dating back more than 50 years. Recently, the Scouts decided to thank their sponsoring organization by cleaning up the church grounds on Island Road in Wantagh. more

Chaz Murray, 54, grew up in Merrick bounding through the woods near his home. He became a Boy Scout and went on to camp in the wild. He moved away when he turned 24 and returned seven years ago. On Sunday, he said he was horrified to see the derelict state into which Merrick’s forests off the Meadowbrook Parkway have fallen. Murray, a New York City paramedic, was one of 52 volunteers who came to the woods between Sunrise Highway and Meadowbrook Road in Merrick to clean up debris that had washed from farther north into the forest via the Meadow Brook or had been strewn there by vandals. He said he learned about the cleanup by reading the Merrick Herald Life. more

Whether it was dropped by humans or brought there by natural forces, there was plenty of garbage to be found in the Tackapausha Preserve last Saturday morning. A group of volunteers spent hours cleaning up the park, which straddles the Seaford-Massapequa border. more