North Bellmore News

Carol Ann Viccora has turned a mother's worst nightmare into an opportunity to help other families...with chocolate.

VITA Program Announced The Town of Hempstead Department of Senior Enrichment is offering the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program to help senior citizens prepare their income tax returns.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, Senior Councilman Anthony J. Santino and the town board hosted Long Island's only India Republic Day Commemoration on Tuesday.

The Meadow Commons retail plaza will open in the spring if snow does not interrupt construction.

Nancy Boland, a North Bellmore woman who was arrested in November 2011 for killing her ex-husband and then dumping his body in the woods along the Wantagh State Parkway, was arrested Monday for allegedly beating her mother with an aluminum cane, according to a Newsday report.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on school districts to immediately implement a new, state-mandated evaluation system for teachers or risk losing state aid dollars.

Read more about the event on Bellmore Patch. 2. Sonic Drive-In coming to East Meadow will have a Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Read more here .

Children at South Shore Country Day School in North Bellmore are collecting gently used magazines that they will distribute to local senior centers and assisted living residences.

Ronald A. Tomo was seven months old when he was diagnosed with polio - a mere two months before a vaccine became available.

Fifteen years ago, East Meadow business owner Felecia Rozansky was looking at storefronts to open a new cookie shop, but when her son Eric was diagnosed with Autism, everything came to a halt.

Reinaldo Nunez, president of the North Bellmore Civic Association , sat down with Bellmore Patch and spoke about the association's goals for 2012 and some of their accomplishments.

Bellmore A Bellmore man was arrested in Massapequa for possession of crack cocaine with his child in the car.

According to police, two 13-year-old females were approached at Front Street and Coolidge Drive in East Meadow at 4 p.m. on Jan.

Bellmorite Jarred Bonilla, right, spared with Alex Valentin at the Metropolitan Championship Finals last December.

When the North Bellmore Board of Education announced in December that Jacob Gunther Elementary School will close in June, Principal Marie Testa said that her main concern was getting her 239 kids through the process smoothly.

A string of car burglaries in the Bellmore-Merrick area has police advising residents to make sure their vehicles are locked at all times.

On a September morning, AJ Smart of North Bellmore was driving down his block when he saw the child of his neighbors run out of their house screaming for help and chasing after four men.

On Jan.3, Leocadia Troy-Ayala, 19, of North Bellmore was arrested on Sunrise Highway near Jones Avenue in Wantagh and charged with driving while intoxicated.