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Partly Cloudy and Breezy Tropical Storm Isaias slams Nassau with high winds
Tropical Storm Isaias rolled across Nassau County Tuesday afternoon with relatively little rain but with sustained winds in the 30 to 50 mph range, with some gusts in excess of 70 mph, downing trees …
Merrick schools undergo exciting upgrades
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Funded by a capital bond approved by voters in December 2016, the Merrick School District continues to make significant renovations and upgrades at Chatterton, Birch and Levy Lakeside Elementary Schools.
North Merrick School District holds webinar on child anxiety
Tips offered to parents to help their kids cope
To help parents guide their kids through coping with anxiety, the North Merrick School District hosted a special webinar on Friday with Dr. Jonathan Dalton of the Center for Anxiety and Behavioral Change.
Former Bellmore-JFK teacher honors 2020 graduates
Alumni association awards scholarship to recent grad
Instead of simply handing out a scholarship to a student, Ronald Steiger, the public relations director of John F. Kennedy High School’s alumni association, decided to put his network’s …
John F. Kennedy High School graduate takes home $80,000 Regeneron prize
Katherine St George, John F. Kennedy High School’s 2020 valedictorian, was named among the top 10 finalists of the Regeneron Science Talent Search competition on Wednesday, placing higher than …
Calhoun High School to get new assistant principal
After an unprecedented school year, former Merrick Avenue Middle School Science Chair Michael Hughes began his term as the new assistant principal of Sanford H. Calhoun High School on July 1, joining …
Petition for NYAW takeover gets more than 1,000 signatures
The Public Service Commission has extended the deadline by which local municipalities and authorities can submit proposals for a public takeover of New York American Water, which could halt the …
Convicted doctor from Merrick denied new trial
Michael Belfiore, a physician who practiced in Merrick, was denied a request for a new trial following his conviction on 28 federal charges related to his prescribing of opioids, including causing …
North Bellmore centenarian reflects on the pandemics
It’s been a little more than 100 years since the Spanish flu ravaged the globe, infecting about a third of the world’s population. And while most people from that era are no longer here …
Merrick Bellmore Little League in full swing
Young athletes in Merrick Bellmore Little League were kicking up dirt on the diamond weeks before the first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, which took place on July 23.
Bellmore-Merrick provides Extended School Year services
As school districts throughout New York state work to present reopening plans for the 2020-2021 academic year starting in September, a handful based in Nassau County, including Bellmore-Merrick, continued to provide a valuable service this summer.
North Merrick School District receives temperature-checking tech from Friends for Good Health
After she was recruited to serve on North Merrick School District’s re-entry task force, which formed six weeks ago to develop potential school-reopening plans for September, Board of Education …
Send the Herald your stories, photos of how you're coping with the coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has vastly altered our daily routines. Parents are at home. Children are at home. College students are at home. All must stay put, we are told, for now. People are making …
Editorial
We’ll say it again: It’s time to fix the SALT cap
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove, has campaigned relentlessly to eliminate the $10,000 cap on deductions of state and local taxes imposed by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which President Trump shepherded through Congress.
Editorial
Young people: Cut out the big gatherings
About a thousand people — most young people — gathered on the beach in Long Beach on July 18, in clear violation of the state’s current ban . . .
Scott Brinton
What a poet can teach us about death — and life
I was out for a drive in mid-April, rounding the corner from Beach Street to Merrick Road in Merrick, when Emily Dickinson’s words suddenly came to my mind . . .
Randi Kreiss
Breaking news: President discovers gravity
After months of denying that gravity exists, President Trump dropped a golf ball from the White House roof and declared that Isaac Newton was right.
Alfonse D'Amato
We need a can-do attitude to beat Covid-19
It seems like we’ve been living with the coronavirus pandemic in a slow-motion time warp. But it’s time we snap out of it and beat this plague with the attitude that has characterized Americans’ character when faced with other seemingly insurmountable crises.