North Bellmore News

Written by Long Island Press on Dec 25th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

A Silver Alert was issued in Nassau County on Thursday for an 81-year-old North Bellmore man with dementia who has been missing since Wednesday morning, police said.

Robert and Susan Cirigliano and Michelle Witt testified about the deaths of their children in dropside cribs before the Nassau County Legislature on Monday.

Officials in all five Bellmore-Merrick school districts said they should be able to weather current reductions in their state aid packages, but they worry whether possible future cuts will force them to tap reserve funds, borrow money or eventually reduce student services.

John Theissen, left, who runs the John Theissen Foundation to provide children in need with toys at the holidays, meets with students at Martin Avenue Elementary School in North Bellmore.

Volunteer firemen from both of the Roslyn fire companies were among the first on the scene as they helped to rescue a Brentwood man who had fallen into an 18-foot hole at a residential construction site in East Hills.

A woman at the wheel of an SUV swerved to avoid another vehicle and plowed into the front of Pizzelli's pizza/deli in North Bellmore at 6:15 p.m. on Dec.

These responders, armed with some 40 pieces of equipment, all helped rescue Mario Flores, left.

A Brentwood man is recovering from hypothermia after surviving five hours, trapped in a collapsed cesspool in East Hills.

Residents may never again see the inflated turkey in a wagon dragged by a tractor, a highlight of past North Bellmore Ragamuffin parades, as was the case last year as shown here.

A fire that gutted the former landmark Bellmore restaurant Smithville Cafe early Monday morning is being attributed to arson, police and fire investigators say.

Now is the time to thank the 2,679 people who queued up for hours in front of the Farmingville Fire Department to register as potential bone marrow donors to help one little girl on Sunday.

The North Bellmore Fire Dept. responded to a fire at 1759 Bellmore Ave. Laura's BBQ Roadhouse early Monday, November 30, 2009.

A couple from North Bellmore, Long Island is at the forefront of an effort to ban all drop-side cribs.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, pictured last week at the VA Medical Center in Northport, signed a local law Tuesday that bans the sale of any crib with a side that moves up and down.

A volunteer firefighter was injured battling a predawn blaze in North Bellmore, fire officials said.

Written by Jaclyn Gallucci on Nov 20th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News . You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry A Smithtown man was arrested Thursday after taking thousands from a North Bellmore woman in an attempted mortgage loan scam, Nassau Police said.

Town of Babylon Sex Offender Residency Restriction Map A North Bellmore high school student searched his block on an online sex offender map last month and found something that unnerved the whole neighborhood: A Level 2 sex offender who served one year in Nassau County jail for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl was not only living near him, but ...

Jack Holzman from the Vietnam War Veterans Association sounds taps to close a Veterans Day ceremony at Newbridge Road Elementary School last week.

The question of who will be Nassau's next county executive, Democratic incumbent Tom Suozzi or Republican challenger Ed Mangano, was still hanging over residents' heads as the Herald went to press on Tuesday.