Keyword: Elementary
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Dressed in a navy blue blazer and a flowered shirt, Dana Bermas gently knocked on the door of Melissa O’Donnell’s second-grade class at Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick on a recent Tuesday …
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By Casey Pinner
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6/19/14
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Smiling parents snapped photos of their children as they walked across the floor of Harold D. Fayette Elementary School’s general-purpose room. The occasion: an award ceremony for the young winners of the Keep-A-Merrick-A-Beautiful contest.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/12/14
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The halls of Roland A. Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick are adorned with student artwork: bulletin boards full of construction paper projects, crayon drawings and wobbly handwriting. On a recent Friday, children clad in flannel pants and superhero shirts for Pajama Day skipped down the hall in neat lines.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/4/14
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Birch and Chatterton elementary schools in the Merrick School District recently celebrated National Foreign Language Week with a poster and literary contest, for which all participating students received certificates. The students’ projects interpreted this year’s theme, “Don’t Let Learning a Language Slip Through Your Fingers!”
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5/8/14
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Who or what will move into the former Sunoco station property at the intersection of Merrick Road and Babylon Turnpike?
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By Brian Racow
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5/8/14
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Skaters from around the country gathered in North Bellmore on Saturday for the Bellmore-Merrick Roller Hockey League’s Player Appreciation Day. The 30-year-old league honored its leaders and …
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By Julie Mansmann
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5/1/14
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The South Merrick Community Civic Association is planning a special meeting on Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at the Merrick Road Park golf clubhouse to discuss the possibility of a 7-Eleven moving into an abandoned gas station at Babylon Turnpike and Merrick Road.
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4/25/14
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The North Merrick School District announced in March that each of its schools — Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road — had qualified for a $75,000 “Reward School Dissemination Grant” from the state Education Department due to their students’ high performance on state assessment tests in 2011 and 2012.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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The 13 sixth-graders in the Merrick School District’s Alternative Program for Enriching Experiences recently spent more than four months drawing blueprints for and meticulously crafting toothpick bridges. They even visited the Center for Architecture in Manhattan to study bridge construction, from beam to cantilever, truss and arch bridges, before undertaking their projects.
Then the students destroyed their creations.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/20/14
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John Fried, of Frederick, Md., a longtime principal of Camp Avenue Elementary School in North Merrick, died on Feb. 28 in Wilmington, N.C., after a long illness. He was 86 years old.
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3/20/14
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