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July 6, 2002  RSS feed
Ocean House Owners Nailed! Taub And Son Arrested For Stealing Millions From Facility
Sherman Taub, 57, and his son, Judah, 33, were arrested and charged last week with stealing more than $2 million from Ocean House, an adult care facility for the mentally disabled located at 12-14 Heyson Road in Far Rockaway. The two men are accused of bilking more than $2 million from the 125-bed facility, which operates as a not-for-profit entity. More...
NTSB To Snub 587 Witness Meeting
By Howard Schwach

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has told The Wave and the Rockaway community thanks, but no thanks, by turning down an invitation by both this paper and Congressman Anthony Weiner to attend a meeting where the agency would be able to listen to what the eyewitnesses to the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 have to say. More...

New Budget Brings ‘Goodies’
By Howard Schwach

The New York City budget recently negotiated between Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the City Council holds lots of hope for Rockaway, according to both of the city councilpersons that represent the peninsula and Broad Channel, Joe Addabbo and James Sanders. More...

 Community
• Community Board 14 Meeting
There will be a meeting of the Design Sub-Committee of Community Board 14 on July 17 at 7 p.m. It will be held at The Sunset Diner on Beach 116 Street. The topic for discussion will be the World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial. More...
• Completes Machinist Course
• Pickett Completes Training
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 Columnists
• Beachcomber
The families of Flight 587 victims, most of whom live in Washington Heights, met in the Bronx last week to decry the treatment they are getting from the city. "They only think about the World Trade Center," said one woman who lost both her mother and father in the crash. "We need our community leaders and politicians to get in touch with our needs as well." More...
• Boyle-ing Points by Kevin Boyle
• Broad Channel Bits by Liz Guarino
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 Sports
• Hopes, Dreams, Home Runs And The Who
A sellout crowd at the ballpark, parents attend with their children, hot dogs are eaten, the mascot plays with the children and all people have a great time. Of course you find that at Yankee and Shea Stadium, but Keyspan Park is the becoming one of the next hottest places to be. More...
• Mighty Yellow Loses But Come Out Winners
• PAL Launches Summer Programs In The Rockaway
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Credibility Matters
Over the last few months, credibility has become a topic of discussion for many in America. While Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, ImClone and other business juggernauts are collapsing, due to shady stock transactions and unscrupulous accounting practices, public confidence is waning, and people are losing their pensions and life savings in the process. More...
• ‘Minimally Adequate’ Is Just Not Good Enough
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 Letters
• A Sense of Safety in Rockaway
I have been considering living in Nassau and have found more corruption that I have ever believed possible. The police do not come to apprehend auto drivers who back into sidewalk pedestrians and drive away, nor do they want to find a girl who physically attacked a 62-year old woman, threw her into a glass store window and walked away. More...
• Disavows Writing Letter
• Do What The G-Man Says!
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 Obits
• Obituaries Tessie Bendo
Tessie Bendo, a resident of Neponsit for nearly 50 years, passed away on June 4, 2002. More...
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