Parts of Bellmore-Merrick were underwater last week, when a rainstorm of historic proportions caused flooding across the area. The National Weather Service issued flash-flood warnings for much of …
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By Julie Mansmann
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8/20/14
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Bill Wood, of Orange Street in Bellmore, lives just feet from the Farmers Avenue entrance to the Faith Laursen Preserve, which sits on 25 acres between Bellmore and Merrick. Bill’s wife, …
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/21/14
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The 25-acre Faith Laursen Meroke Preserve, on the Bellmore-Merrick border, is a forest much like most of Long Island used to be. The Meroke Indians camped by its five streams, and Colonists used its tall cedars for ship masts. Legend says during the Revolutionary War British soldiers hid there from marauding Colonials. (Most of the Bellmore-Merrick area farmers were British sympathizers.)
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By Linda Laursen Toscano
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1/31/14
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