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There will be lots of pre-Christmas activity on the peninsula this coming week. On Saturday, December 7 at 6 p.m., this year More ... You should really think about buying some pottery. It makes a wonderful holiday gift. And really, you can More ... Cold weather is really moving in to remind us it's almost Winter, which officially begins on the 21st. Hopefully, everyone will be finished with Christmas shopping long before then! More ... Esthetics shine at the Greater New York Dental Meeting for Better Dentistry at the New York Jacob J.Javits Center. From Colgate More ... Suppose you got a letter this morning from New York State telling you that the legislature passed a new law designed to insure that all children had adequate clothing to wear and that, under the new law, you had to spend $1,500 a month on each of your children More ... Hey people! You all know that I have made a prediction or two in my column from time to time, and I am probably about to make my biggest yet. Hold on to something! More ... Charles Mattina, an acting assistant principal at Junior High School 198 in Arverne was arrested this week in a sting in which he offered an undercover police investigator the sum of $17 thousand for 125 cases of allegedly stolen cigarettes worth more than $75 thousand. More ... While shopping for your groceries, have you ever wondered what the difference was between regular produce and organic produce? While people always assumed organic produce was grown in a more natural manner than regular produce, there was never any federal or state standard specifying how to classify a product as "organic". More ... On behalf of the Sullivan Family, I'd like to extend their heartfelt thanks to all those who attended the special Memorial Mass for James Conway Sullivan on Monday December 2. More ... Last week I was contacted by cell phone concerning the coordinated effort by DOT and Welsbach, the company that maintains street lights. We are proud to announce that State Road from Beach 169 Street to the tip of Breezy Point now has lights, except for one, which needs special attention. More ... Well whether the readership has believed an argument that there really are Flymasters and Flymistresses among us (leaders in the worship of Beelzebub, see previous column on the Egyptian fly deity idol), or not, certainly ecosystem coverage by media has been concentrated on mosquito problems of Rockaway, then piping plovers and checkered white butterflies and seabeach amaranth herb all for the former More ... Mayor Bloomberg's recent push for increased property taxes (a prelude to even more taxes in other areas?) poses a special problem to Rockawayites. Home ownership is substantial on the peninsula and even renters stand to have tax increases passed along to them, though they may be among those least able to afford them. More ... |
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