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Beachcomber The drought is officially over. DEP Commissioner Christopher Ward has announced that there has been a sufficient rainfall in the upstate watershed area during the past three months to raise reservoir levels well past the norm for this time of the year. More ... Boyle-ing Points By Kevin Boyle It was nice to see last week’s Wave--- it was virtually a Kevin Boyle-free edition. (I’ll see if I can make up for that now). Because people keep telling me they’ve tried to get copies of Braving The Waves but have had no luck, I figure I’ll use this week’s column to announce availability of said bo... More ... Broad Channel Bits By Liz Guarino New Year's Day was certainly rainy and very wet, but gratefully, we did not have any snow dropped on us as snow has a nasty habit of accumulating! And, apparently, at least some of the rain is falling over and into the upstate reservoirs-their capacity is quite a bit higher than usual for this time ... More ... Chatting With Chapey By Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey On January 1, Judge Timothy J. Dufficy began his new career as a Judge of the Civil Court of New York. Tim Dufficy is uniquely qualified by education, experience and temperament to serve as a judge. More ... Dorothy Dunne It was with great relief to find the Breezy Point Drug Awareness program is still being held every Tuesday evening. We have been late in starting this, but thank God we are now taking an active part in bringing to our youth the dangers and pitfalls of drug abuse. More ... Eye On Physical Therapy By Tim Rohrs Happy and Healthy New Year! As a new year begins we all have hopes and aspirations to better ourselves. For most of us we focus on a physical transformation to lose weight, tone our bodies etc. More ... From The Artists Studio By Susan Hartenstein Sean Coveney was a gentleman. Sean Coveney was a gentle man. He was an artist at life as well as at a canvas. Sean was a man of profound passion and concern for the world around him and for those inhabiting that world. More ... From the Editor’s Desk By Howard Schwach I bid on a crystal ball on E-bay, never thinking that $1.65 would be the winning bid, but it was. When it arrived at The Wave, I tried to clean it up a bit with paper towel, and a vision that looked something like a television show popped into view. More ... From the G-Man By Gary G. Toms After meeting with the mother of Thomas Johnson this week, I have decided to reprint a column I wrote two years ago. As I promised Mrs. Johnson, it is in memory of her murdered son. More ... Health and Harmony By Dr. Nancy Gahles It was Christmas Day, 2002. My family was gathered around the tree. There was a glowing fire in the fireplace and a rousing game of Monopoly was under way. More ... LOOKING BACKWARD Read the Story... On The Beach… With Beverly Baxter Whether you were cuddled up by a roaring fire with the one you love or ringing in the New Year at a roaring party, I hope your New Year's was fun, safe, and filled with love. More ... Simon Says…. From the Desk of Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B Welcome to 2003. We hope this New Year will be better than the last. The Good Government Regular Democratic Club would like to invite everyone to join us on our monthly Atlantic City bus trip to Trump Marina this Saturday, January 11. More ... Sprayview Sticks and Stones By Environmental Reporter Bernard Blum Well, the barfing and belittling Beelzebub is alive and well. How else to explain the G-Man’s December 28 excessively mean-spirited column, a put down of my efforts to obtain better mosquito control, protect habitat, and stop the export of toxic dredge spoils off Bayswater/Far Rockaway and other pit... More ... The Rockaway Irregular By Stuart Mirsky Has anyone looked closely at the trestle that runs down Rockaway's spine lately? Recently driving along Rockaway Beach Boulevard, I happened to look up at what usually just fades into a kind of featureless background for me . More ... |
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