Members from community organizations, businesses and city agencies came together last Wednesday, May 1, for a town hall meeting hosted by City Council member James Sanders, Jr. The meeting was called to address a wide range of problems affecting the schools in District 27. The number one issue on the minds of many at the meeting was the enormous cuts in education, proposed in Mayor Bloomberg More...

The Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department will host a christening of its new ambulance on Sunday, May 19 at the North Channel Yacht Club in Broad Channel. The new ambulance will replace the one lost at the World Trade Center, where four of the organization More...

When New York Mets general manager Steve Phillips completed his outright gutting of the club's futile lineup this spring, the most surprising holdover from last year's offensive debacle was outfielder Jay Payton. More...

The battle over the plan to move a local firehouse from Beach 59 Street (south of the freeway) to a site on Beach 48 Street (north of the freeway) has become contentious when there was never any reason for it to become so. On the face of it, the plan is untenable. The old site is right next to Ocean Village, a sprawling housing complex and is only blocks from the planned and approved Arverne By The Sea project that will one day house six thousand people or more. More...

Tell me what have the political representatives covering the Rockaway Peninsula done in the past and in the ongoing years to prevent the influx of medical mills, health-related facilities, and low housing city projects?? More...

Reverend MSGR. James J. McKenna Pastor Emeritus More...