As this year’s Pride Month comes to a close, LGBTQ+ rights activists in Bellmore-Merrick are reflecting on the community’s progress and shortcomings in creating a safer, more welcoming …
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By Victoria Caruso
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6/23/20
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With classroom parties canceled along with in-person instruction, the class parents of Mary Lou Langdon's kindergarten class at Saw Mill Road School in North Bellmore had some money leftover to …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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6/12/20
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Nassau County Legislator Carrié Solages has called for the review of a former Nassau County Police Department officer who used a racial slur in a Twitter video posted June 4.
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By Andrew Garcia
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6/11/20
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District was forced to shut down schools and shift to remote learning in March, raising questions as to how the final chapter of the class of 2020’s …
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By Justin Dynia and Victoria Caruso
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6/11/20
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Thousands of demonstrators from all over Long Island flooded the streets of Bellmore and Merrick Thursday night on the third consecutive day of Black Lives Matter protests.
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By Alyssa Seidman
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6/4/20
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By Alyssa Seidman
aseidman@liherald.com
The boisterous pomp and circumstance that accompany college graduations softened to a hum this year, as restrictions on large gatherings remained in …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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5/27/20
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As projected, Long Island began the Phase One reopening of its battered economy on Wednesday, paving the way for construction and wholesale trade companies to restart operations, along with retailers …
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By Scott Brinton, Alyssa Seidman and Andrew Garcia
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5/27/20
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May 18 would have been the Lakeside Parent Teacher Association’s annual “End of the Year Dinner,” where we celebrate parents and teachers and induct a new executive board. It is a …
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By Melissa Warshaw
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5/21/20
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Three popular Bellmore-Merrick area summer camps — Merrick Woods Day Camp in Merrick, and Coleman Country Day Camp and Twin Oaks Day Camp, both in Freeport — have closed for the summer …
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By Andrew Garcia and Alyssa Seidman
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5/21/20
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Though the coronavirus pandemic is not over and Long Island and New York City are not hitting all the benchmarks to reopen in comparison to other regions or parts of upstate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will allow beaches to open next Friday, May 22, in time for the Memorial Day weekend, he said at his daily briefing on May 15.
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By Alyssa Seidman, Jim Bernstein, Scott Brinton and Karen Bloom
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5/19/20
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