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April 11: UFC Legend Helps Fight Cancer, State Aid Increase

Five things you need to know today.

1. East Meadow School District was recently given an increase in State Aid for the 2012-13 school year. The schools are getting about 4 percent more. See all the details later on East Meadow Patch.

2. The Friends of the Merrick Library host an ongoing book fair at the Library Wing, 2369 Merrick Ave. on Wednesdays. The sale starts at 1:30 p.m. and books are available for as little as $1.

3. Get ready to Zumba! Head to the Bellmore American Legion at 6 p.m. to enjoy the latest workout craze. Can't make it? See the full schedule here.

4. Keith's Plumbing Heating and Drain Cleaning was recently named Merrick Patch's Business of the Week! Want to be Business of the Week too? E-mail Emily.Cappiello@patch.com.

5. In case you missed it: UFC legend and East Meadow native Matt Serra helped fight a little boy's cancer at Mulcahy's in Wantagh. For the full story, click here.

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Bobby Stokel May 21, 2013 at 11:17 am
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Zach T May 17, 2013 at 07:20 pm
The School board is a bunch of morons if they want to remove this designation! There were 0 problemsRead More like this when Malucci was in office, this new superintendent is a waste of space, money, and cares more about his own paycheck then our kids! Between school security, and now this, I motion that we get rid of that skell!
Dr. Kim Lurie May 16, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Bless you, Anthony. And though I know ultimately the "Judge" will have to be heldRead More accountable by a higher authority...those of us who do this work, have not forgotten nor will we allow the system to forget what her role in this travesity was.
Anthony Merlo May 16, 2013 at 10:24 am
Thank you for this wonderful article on a good man pushed to the brink. I appriciate the fact thisRead More came form the heart and did not hold back. As Sacristan at Cure of Ars, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Rich (as I called him) for some time. He was a man of faith and a pleasure to see. Always with a smile and kind word, you would never know what was going on the way he acted. This was a wonderful and insightful article. It is heartbreaking to think that where there was once love between 2 people, things got to the point where one persons life was destroyed by those who could and did for no apparent reason other than having the ability to do so. God will have mercy on Dr. Rich and the ex-wife and "Judge" should pray for the same given their actions.