Kids & Family

May 17: State of School Fields, Student Honored, Homes for Sale

The top news in Bellmore-Merrick on this Friday.

  1. At last week's Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education meeting, a group of concerned citizens voiced concerns about the quality of sports fields at Mepham, Kennedy and Calhoun High Schools. Click here for more.
  2. Lauren Lamonsoff, a junior from Calhoun High School, was accepted to perform with the NAfME (National Association for Music Education) Eastern Division Honors Mixed Choir. For more on her achievements, click here.
  3. Looking for a new home? This one just went on the market in Merrick while this one just became available in Bellmore.
  4. Philip Oreste, 9, of Merrick, won First Prize for his individual poem in the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association's 27th Annual Poetry Contest. Click here for more.
  5. Do you have news you want to share? Post it to our community boards! For Bellmore Patch, click this link, and for Merrick Patch, click here.


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