Kennedy High School students recently helped One Is Greater Than None, a non-profit group created by JFK students, to raise more than $3,500 to supply free health care to Americans in need. Some 207 participants walked at the high school track under sunny skies to raise money for and awareness of the cause.
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5/24/10
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When Kennedy High School senior Emily Mauser was younger, she watched helplessly as her mother suffered migraine headaches that were so debilitating that she had to shut herself in a pitch-black room with no noise to feel any sense of relief.
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Scott Brinton
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5/20/10
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A cold drizzle fell as the short, yellow school bus from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District pulled up last Wednesday to Kennedy Airport's Hagar 17, the 80,000-square-foot storehouse for the remains of what once were the two tallest buildings in the world.
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Scott Brinton
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5/17/10
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At age 14, Noah Rubin can honestly say that he has one-upped Roger Federer's record at that age. Noah, who will be a freshman at Kennedy High School in Bellmore in the fall, just finished a stint on the national tennis circuit. He was one of three boys to represent the U.S. in the qualifying round of the World Junior Tennis Competition in Boca Raton, Fla.
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Deirdre Krasula
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5/5/10
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With guinea fowl scampering through the underbrush and Nigerian dwarf goats bleating in the background nearby, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray welcomed Ilene Robinson's third-grade class from Levy-Lakeside Elementary School to the Levy Preserve in Merrick on Wednesday, one day before Earth Day.
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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Ninety of Long Island's top science and mathematics students recently convened at SUNY Stony Brook's Charles B. Wang Center to compete in the prestigious Long Island Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and in the crowd were five -- count 'em, five -- young Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District researchers, all seniors -- four from Kennedy High School and one from Calhoun.
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Scott Brinton
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4/20/10
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A chilly spring morning couldn't deter more than 50 teams from across Long Island from attending Mepham High School's Fourth Annual Paul Limmer Pirate Track and Field Invitational recently. The event, which was initially started to showcase Mepham's then new track, has become an annual friendly meet to raise money for Mepham's track and field team at the beginning of the season.
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Deirdre Krasula
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4/15/10
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Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools all celebrated Homecoming on Saturday, and students had a blast at the pre-game parades and at the big football games, despite all three home teams losing.
Calhoun went down to Massapequa, 24-20. Kennedy lost a heartbreaker to Division, 21-20, after being up 20-0 at halftime. And Mepham was overpowered by No. 4 seed Wantagh, 30-7.
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Scott Brinton
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10/1/09
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