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April 26, 2003
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No BCHS Boat Ramp This Summer
SCA Claims No Money for repairs
By Brian Magoolaghan
The Beach Channel High School boat ramp, the only one of its kind in the Rockaway area, will remain closed for the coming boating season, according to a representative at the agency responsible for its repair. More...
West End Drug Bust Nets Two
By Howard Schwach

Acting on a drug warrant, police officers from the 100 Precinct and the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit (ESU) raided two apartments at 150 Beach 115 Street in Rockaway Park, last Wednesday, April 23, netting more than 20 bags of crack cocaine as well as a quantity of marijuana and illegal pills. More...

Sports Mega-Plex Set For Gateway

A Chelsea-Piers-like sporting center will soon be built at Floyd Bennett Field, as part of a $34 million facelift for Gateway National Park, Congressman Anthony Weiner announced on Tuesday. More...

A Rite of Spring

When spring comes, can a sliding pond in a cool playground be far be­hind. This young Rockaway boy is enjoying the sunshine at the newly-refurbished playground at Beach 71 Street and Shore Front Parkway. More...

 Community
•75th Communion Breakfast Set
On Sunday, April 27, the Rockaway Council Knights of Columbus and Columbiettes will hold their Seventy-Fifth Annual Corporate Communion Breakfast. More...
•Beautiful Spring Weather Draws Crowd To Playground
•Police Blotter
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 Columnists
•Beachcomber
The first water rescue of the summer season took place on Sunday morning, when three young men decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather to go surfboarding off Beach 135 Street. More...
•Broad Channel Bits
•Chatting with Chapey
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 Sports
•Makeup Loss Stuns Far Rockaway
Far Rockaway played their varsity baseball game against Transit Tech last Wednesday thinking that the game was makeup due to a rainout on April 1. At the time of the postponement, Transit Tech was leading 6-0 in the first inning; so Far Rockaway manager Ken Hernandez expected the game to start fresh... More...
•Far Rockaway Clinic
•Murphy Learns On And Off The Court
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 Editorial/Opinion
•A Waterfront Community Needs A Boat Ramp
We have traveled throughout the nation, from Maine to Florida, to places where water-related activity is a main attraction. Wherever we went, wherever there is a lake or a river, a bay or an ocean, there was a place for residents to launch their boats. More...
•Editorial Comment
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