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Girl Scouts get their Gold Award
North Bellmore retirees honored
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Vol. 27 No. 28
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JUlY 4 - 10, 2024
New hydration stations arrive at town parks the highest summit on the South Shore of Long Island, offering those who visit the Town of Hempstead parks park panoramic views of Nassau County’s bays, beaches and just got a little bit greener. Schools are out and the sum- more. The park’s “roots” are in mer season is officially here, and last week the Town of recycling, making it the perfect Hempstead announced the place for the first hydration staaddition of an eco-friendly tion to be installed. water bottle refilling station at “We started seeing a heavy the Norman J. Levy increase in foot Park and Preserve traffic during the in South Merrick, Covid-19 pandemic, helping to reduce as residents were the number of plaslooking for a safe tic bottles discarded activity to do outat the park while doors,” Clavin said. keeping residents “Attendance at the hydrated. park continues to DoN ClAViN Town Supervisor Supervisor grow, so we continDon Clavin, who Town of Hempstead ue to introduce new was joined by Town initiatives, such as Clerk Kate Murray this eco-friendly and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine way to keep residents safe and Driscoll, made the announce- hydrated while combating the ment on June 26. rise of single-use plastic bottles The preserve is among the discarded at the park.” most popular recreational spacT he installation of the es in the Town of Hempstead. hydration station was made Tucked behind the town’s sani- possible through a Marine tation facilities off of Merrick Debris grant from the National Road, what is now a bustling Oceanic and Atmospheric preserve used to be a landfill, Administration, in a bid to before it was transformed into reduce the amount of plastic a park in 2000. It boasts walking discarded in waterways. The paths, kayak launches, fishing grant was awarded to a netpiers, a herd of Nigerian dwarf Continued on page 15 goats and more, and also has
By JoRDAN VAlloNE
jvallone@liherald.com
Courtesy North Bellmore School Distinct
Growing up and moving on to middle school Across Bellmore-Merrick, the hamlets’ four elementary school districts — Bellmore, North Bellmore, Merrick and North Merrick — celebrated the achievement of sixth grade graduates, in moving up ceremonies that reflected on their successes as they go off to middle school. As the students prepare for their next level of education at Grand Avenue or Merrick Avenue Middle School, officials from all four districts made it clear that they are ready for the next chapter. Above, North Bellmore’s graduates processed into the Brookside School’s auditorium for their moving up ceremony. Right, at Fayette School’s ceremony in North Merrick, Shazil Azim addressed his peers. Stories, photos from all four school districts, Page 10.
Courtesy North Merrick Union Free School District
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his is a really good, green program.