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Merrick, NY

UNIONDALE, NY - MAY 05: Brian Barteld of Merrick, New York arrives for the game between the New York Islanders and the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Three of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 5, 2013 in Uniondale, New York.

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  • Richner Communications to acquire L&M Publications

    are led by publisher Linda Toscano and editor Paul Laursen, the daughter and son of Faith and Johannes Laursen, who purchased Merrick Life in 1958 and later added the three other papers. Toscano said she is leaving the company. Faith Laursen died in 1993.   Read more »

  • Athanasious Cheliotis identified as fatal crash victim

    County police said Monday.Cheliotis died after being pulled from his burning car by passersby after a head-on collision on Merrick Road at 6:39 a.m. Thursday, police said.The collision occurred near Soma Avenue, police said.Police said Cheliotis was driving   Read more »

  • Free skin cancer screenings to be held in Copiague

    free skin cancer screening will be held in Copiague on July 18.It is being sponsored by State Sen. Charles J. Fuschillo Jr. (R-Merrick) and the Colette Coyne Melanoma Awareness Campaign. The screenings will be conducted by trained dermatologists, who will   Read more »

  • Diner owner's death shakes Greek community

    in Valley Stream.Ten minutes later, his 2001 Toyota Camry collided head-on with a car that had veered into his lane on Merrick Road in Bellmore, police and family said.Cheliotis, 66, died a short time later at Nassau University Medical Center. The driver of   Read more »

  • John F. Kennedy High School graduates ready for 'maze of life'

    that many times obstacles force people to deviate from their planned route and find new ways to succeed.Using the way the Bellmore-Merrick communities came together to endure the effects of superstorm Sandy, Fegan said that each obstacle a person comes across   Read more »

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About Merrick, NY

Merrick is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 22,764. The name Merrick is taken from "Meroke", the name (meaning peaceful) of the Algonquin tribe formerly indigenous to the area. It is served by the Merrick station on the Long Island Rail Road.

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