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By Lawrence Garfinkel Jerry Medowar – friend, confidant, neighbor, booster, prompter, partner. My first strong awareness of Jerry was just about the time the Historical Society of the Merricks was organized and chartered by the State of New York—1975. He and

Students bounded off school buses and into the building at Charles A. Reinhard Early Childhood Center School in the Bellmore School District to kick off the new school year.   Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Famularo and Principal Patricia Castine were

The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center will gather together on September 17 at the Long Beach Boardwalk to once again promote suicide awareness among teens. With suicide the second leading cause of death among young people in the United States, the

On behalf of the Board of Education and district administration, I extend a warm welcome to the 2017-2018 school year in the North Merrick schools.  Throughout the summer, our dedicated staff has been preparing our classrooms and designing curricula to ensure

New Year’s Eve came four months early in the North Bellmore School District as administrators, teachers and staff celebrated the start of the 2017-18 school year with great fanfare. North Bellmore administrators, teachers and staff celebrated the start of the 2017-18

The Merrick School District opened its doors to students for the start of the 2017-18 school year on Tuesday, September 5. Despite a few tears and opening day jitters expressed by some kindergartners, teachers were mostly greeted with smiling faces as