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Impromptu news conferences often take place in the strangest of places. This picture was taken by an onlooker at the Queens American Legion parade that was held last week in Broad Channel. More ...
A routine field trip to the State Capitol in Albany turned out to be a special event for students of Middle School 180-Q when they accepted an invitation from Assemblywoman Audrey I. More ...
By Bernard Blum Diagonally across the street from my home is a big Arverne lot. So the Sanitation Department strips off the topsoil and living vegetation, threatens with arrest if the public does not leave it (in habitual public use for years – a wide open lot), and replaces it with an urban landfill grade mix of n... More ... Arverne Update: Moving Right Along By Elizabeth Roth The Wave often gets E-mail from people who once lived in Rockaway but have moved away. Many of them have questions about their past community. Some have questions about a specific event that happened in their childhood. More ... Beach, Boardwalk Protest Set For July 9 Reacting to the ban on using the beach after 9 p.m. and the boardwalk after 10 p.m. each night, a Rockaway activist has called for a mass rally on the boardwalk and Beach 116 Street at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9. More ... Cyclones Announce Singer Search/Autograph Session Do you think you can sing better than Rueben Studdard? Can you croon and make girls swoon better than Clay Aiken? Do you have what it takes to be the next Surf Avenue Celebrity? More ...
The Board Channel Volunteer Fire Department led the parade, although many of its members and some of its apparatus had to leave the parade for an emergency call nearby the North Channel Bridge. More ...
A total of 34 teams joined in this year’s Cancer Society Relay For Life held last weekend at Beach Channel High School. While the driving rain on Saturday night and Sunday wiped out most of the outdoor activities, the walkers moved indoors and continued right along as if nothing had happened. More ...
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Dancers from the Connelly Dance Centers of Rockaway Park and Richmond Hill rocked their way to top awards at the New York Dance Festivals this spring. More ...
These St. Camillus students were also Brotherhood Essay Contest winners. They are, from r to l, Michael O’Connor, Nicholas Velez and Jake Leonen. More ...
The winners and contestants gather after a successful P.S. 197 Virtual Y Talent Show that took place on June 4. The Virtual Y staff led by program director Regina Mitchell, Parents Association president Shannon Murray, parents and volunteers was successful in helping the young children to show off t... More ... T’ai Chi Army At Fort Tilden In anticipation of their deployment overseas this fall, Bill Beirne and his T’ai Chi Army will appear at Battery Harris, an abandoned WWII gun emplacement at Fort Tilden, in the Gateway National Recreation Area. More ...
This confusing sight can be seen from the west end of the Sunset Diner on Beach 116 Street in Rockaway Park. The sign on the corner of Beach 117 Street and Newport Avenue has a one way sign going in the southerly direction, while the one in the middle of the block has the arrow going in the opposite... More ... Dancing To Honor Locke And Russo A very special opening to the "Dancing Under the Stars" SummerFun program will be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. at Shore Front Parkway and Beach 84 Street. More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan Starting this weekend, Rockaway residents destined for Manhattan have a new travel option—the ferry from Riis Landing. More ...
The St. Edmund Chamber Ensemble recently joined forces with three members of the Nazareth High School band under the direction of St. Edmund’s band director John Malazzo to perform at the junction of East 31 Street between Avenue N and Kings Highway. More ...
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals donated $1,500 to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital South Shore, The donation will be used to purchase educational textbooks for the hospital’s Medical Library. More ...
Peninsula Hospital Center’s heath fair, last Saturday, was well attended despite the rainy weather that has been soaking our area. Photos by Brian Magoolaghan. More ...
Fourteen young women who live on the peninsula were among two hundred eighty-one Bishop Kearney High School seniors who graduated on June 7. Nine of them were among the one hundred ten students who won over eight million dollars in scholarships this spring. More ...
Belle Harbor belles with John Macrae on Bay Academy’s prom night. Pictured: Jena Hill, Jessica Parker, John Macrae, Michelle Raaf, Julia Steinberg, and Michele Murry. More ...
Timothy Jackson graduated magna cum laude with a double major from the Honors College of Adelphi University. Jackson was awarded the prestigious George C. More ...
Andrew Desmond Hasson, a private in the Army National Guard, completed basic combat training on April 17 at United States Army Training Center in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. His military occupational specialty is Signal Support Systems. More ...
Casey-Ann Vaughn will be graduating from Lawrence High School this month. She will attend Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Vaughn took part as an Intel Finalist during the winter and was one of the forty finalists from the United States. More ...
Antonio Hudson King, of Belle Harbor, will be celebrating his stepping-up ceremony from kindergarten at P.S. 114, Friday, June 20. Antonio’s mom, sister Kimberly, family, and friends will all celebrate this joyful occasion in upstate New York. More ... Returned From Deployment Navy Petty Officer Third Class Quan Martinear, a 1999 graduate of Far Rockaway High School, recently returned from a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. More ...
Kerry Flaherty of Rockaway Beach, daughter of Carol and sister of Baby Benjamin Boo, will be 23 on June 14. More ...
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital South Shore has named Vretta Owens, Access Care Coordinator in the Admitting Department, the Employee of the Quarter. Nominated by her co-workers for this honor, they described her as "professional" and that "there’s really not enough time or paper to say... More ...
The Ninth Annual Gateway to Nations: New York City’s Native American Heritage Celebration will take place at Fort Tilden in the Gateway National Recreation Area on June 21 and 22. More ... There’s No Better Time Than The Present To Plan By Kathleen Lundon, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network No doubt the events of September 11 left us all contemplating many things in our lives – our connections to family, friends, and our communities. It also raised anxiety about what the fu-ture holds and how we can prepare ourselves for what’s to come. More ... Bill Brings Info To Families of Crash Victims The House of Representatives has recently passed legislation authored Representative Anthony Weiner that will greatly enhance the flow of crucial information to plane crash victims. More ...
By Howard Schwach Most people think of "history" as a course that they hated in high school. Every community, however, has its history and that history changed the people of the community and the way they lived. More ...
Photos By Denis Macrae The rain we have been experiencing for the past month or so has many people depressed and seeking the indoors. Some people, however, go right out and challenge the rain. More ... Kearney Scholars Receive Scholarships Fourteen young women who live on the peninsula were among two hundred eighty-one Bishop Kearney High School seniors who graduated on June 7. Nine of them were among the one hundred ten students who won over eight million dollars in scholarships this spring. More ...
On May 22, Beach Channel High School inducted 24 of its finest students into the Arista/Archon National Honor Society. Candidates for Arista/Archon sitting on stage include Blake Aycock, Julio Benitez, Robert Deutchman, Durga Narine, Yvonne Fulmore, Gina Giles, Amy Grosshandler, Jeremy Harridath, De... More ... P.S. 104 Offers Attendance Awards A breakfast for P.S. 104 students with perfect attendance was held on May 19. Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) facilitator Ken Yanek presented awards to fifty students with 100% attendance for the 2002/2003 school year. More ...
Students from the sixth grade spent their first day of vacation in April at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan with Mrs. Ellis, the art teacher, as part of the school’s “Competitive Edge” program for high achieving students. More ...
New York City Councilman Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. (center) is joined by the Belle Harbor School, P.S. 114Q Principal, I. A., Brian O’Connell (right) and P.S. More ...
Queens high schools and Queensborough Community College (QCC) have been working together to provide college-level technology courses for Queens high school students. More ... Support Group for Firefighter Families By Elizabeth Roth Everyone knows that firefighters are under tons of stress on the job. The danger of entering a burning building, the long hours, the horror of seeing their fellow human beings burned to death, or experiencing the trauma of losing their loved ones. More ...
Some streets in Rockaway are getting name changes soon, in an effort to honor local heroes. More ... Fitzgerald Honored with Street Name A ceremony naming a small stretch of Shore Front Parkway between 108 Street and where Fitzgerald ‘s Hotel stood after the hotel’s owner, Jack Fitzgerald will take place on June 28 at 11 am. More ...
By Elizabeth Roth For residents of Rockaway, the Green Buses have been both a lifeline and an annoyance for a very long time. More ...
By Howard Schwach The Rockaway Music and Arts Council (RMAC) wants to entertain you by taking you back to World War II and the days of the "Big Band Sound" of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. More ...
A Veterans Information Day was held last weekend at the Knights of Columbus Hall. Hosted by the Vietnam Veterans of America, the event drew many local vets and their families for help with benefits, health and employment. More ... |
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