High School Bomb Threat + Hit And Run Driver Sought

Happy Friday, neighbors! Here's everything you need to know going on in town today.

Police are looking for the driver of an SUV who hit a bicyclist and fled in Merrick last month. Merrick students are learning to grow produce that is going to a food pantry. A Copiague man got 10 years in prison for running a Nassau cocaine ring. And heavy rains means Southern Nassau is under a flash flood watch until Friday morning.

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First, today's weather:

Rain in the morning. High: 71, low: 60.

Here are the top stories in Merrick today:

1. Jerry Barmash tells us that police are still looking for the driver of a black SUV who fled after hitting a bicyclist on Aug. 13 in Merrick. The male bicyclist, 38, was hit by the SUV that was turning into Wendy's on Merrick Road. The bicyclist is still in the hospital. (Patch)
2. Newsday explains that North Merrick students are among those on Long Island to start studying agriculture, a recent school trend. A garden at the Brookside Educational Center provides produce to the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District's Community Cupboard. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. Nassau County is under a flash flood watch lasting until Friday morning. (Hamlet Hub)
4. Patch writes that a bomb threat cleared out Baldwin High School on Wednesday. Students and teachers were allowed back into the school at 1:52 p.m. after police searched and OK'd the building. (Patch)
5. Alex Costello reports that a Copiague man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for his role as a major supplier of a huge drug trafficking ring out of Hempstead. Allen Evans, 47, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a decade behind bars and five years of post-release supervision. (Patch)

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Today in Merrick:

• Camp Welcome Back Picnic- Rain Date, North Merrick schools.
• Transcript Request Due to Registrar for Oct. 15 Application Deadline, Bellmore-Merrick School District.
• HDF Family Outdoor Movie Night, North Merrick UFSD, 6:30 p.m.

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• Tristan Bissoondial, an 8th grade student at Grand Avenue Middle School, was named a semifinalist in the Broadcom Masters science competition — a prestigious national science, technology, engineering and math competition for middle school students. (LI Herald)

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