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Imam Kashif Aziz greeted Steve Zwick and other members of Temple Beth-El to Jaam’e Masjid Bellmore for an Aug. 23 prayer service.
An interfaith friendship grows in Bellmore
Before Rabbi Howard Gorin, 66, became spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El of North Bellmore a year ago, he served a synagogue in Maryland for more than three decades. For many years, he said, he … more
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Sister Lynn Caton, a pastoral associate at Sacred Heart Parish in North Merrick, started a food garden for the first time this summer in large part to help protect the environment. She was inspired to act by Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on the environment, “On Care for Our Common Home.”
Taking the pope's message to Sacred Heart Parish
Sister Lynn Caton, a pastoral associate in charge of social ministries at Sacred Heart Parish in North Merrick, began a garden for the first time this summer. It’s a small patch of greenery under her office window, with a handful of bushy tomato plants and soaring sunflowers. There’s also a bird feeder and a clear-plastic cross. She calls it her little “corner of heaven.” more
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Students in Jean Carlson’s seventh-grade math class at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Regional School in Bellmore said they were excited about Pope Francis’s first visit to the U.S. this week. Principal Lee Ann Graziose stood behind them.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton goes all out to welcome Pope Francis
Leeann Graziose, principal of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School in Bellmore for the past 12 years, was at home when the envelope from the Diocese of Rockville Centre arrived last Friday afternoon. She … more
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JeanneMarie Eisenhardt, who died suddenly on Sept. 14, is pictured here with her grandson, Harrison
Local ‘real estate dynamo’ dies at 89
A beloved East Meadow woman who family and friends described as a “career real estate dynamo” died suddenly on Sept. 14. She was 89. JeanneMarie Eisenhardt was born to Joe and Sally … more
The Bellmore Family Street Festival will kick off on Sept. 17 with a carnival featuring plenty of rides. Above, a photo of last year’s fair.
Chamber street festival is on the way
A “dream team” of volunteers with the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores is hard at work preparing for the biggest community event of the year: the Bellmore Family Street Festival. The … more
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Bellmore-Merrick Central District off to ‘a great start’
By all accounts by Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District principals, opening day of school on Sept. 1 went off without a hitch. more
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Josh Levine, 16, of Merrick, at right, suffered a concussion in a Kennedy High School junior-varsity baseball game last spring, when a runner slammed into him while he was playing catcher. He was knocked unconscious and now struggles to concentrate and read. He was joined here by his family in April at the annual 5K Robbie’s Run that they sponsor in honor of his late brother, who died while rounding the bases during a Little League practice. From left were his sister, Samantha; mother, Jill; father, Craig; and sister, Riley.
Concussions rattle Central District athletes
Playing catcher, Josh Levine, of Merrick, crouched low on the first-base side of home plate, ball in hand, preparing to tag out a runner trying to score from third base. Suddenly he realized that the runner was charging at him at full speed, lowering his shoulders as if he were readying to tackle him. Levine’s heart was racing. more
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According to David Seinfeld, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District assistant superintendent for instruction, roughly two-thirds of Central students opted out of last spring's battery of seventh- and eighth-grade state exams.
Two-thirds of Central District students opt out of state exams
A little under 50 percent of Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District seventh-graders passed the New York State English Language Arts exam and just over 56 percent passed the math test, according to the State Education Department. more
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The Lady Rebels, a North Bellmore-North Merrick 11- and 12-year-old girls’ travel softball team, won their age division in the state’s Little League tournament. From left were Kirsten Knowles, Coach Kelly McArdle, Casey Ward, Natasha Balkaran, Dominique Delutri, Hannah Aievoli, Jenna Giliberti, Coach Luke Tarantino, Sydney Lamagra, Julia Tarantino, Makayla McNulty, Kaitlin McArdle and Manager Tom Simone. Brianna Morse was not pictured.
Bellmore-Merrick Little League team finishes third in Northeast
The Lady Rebels, a North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League travel softball team, last month recaptured its crown as New York champion, which the team last held in 2013 and narrowly missed taking last year. Propelled forward by their years of playing together, the 11- and 12-year-old girls on the team defeated Staten Island’s South Shore squad, 3-1, to win the state tournament on July 18 in upstate Fishkill. more
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The Dinkelmeyer band prepared to perform at the New York State School Music Association Major Organization Evaluation Festival, which was held at Hofstra University May 18 to 20.
N. Bellmore celebrates musical milestones
Jordan Novak was one of many students who wanted to join the Saw Mill Road Elementary School Serenaders, a select vocal musical group, in recent years. She explained that dozens of her peers wanted … more
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