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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 ... 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 More ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 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 their talents. 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 direction. More ... 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 ... The St. Edmund Chamber Ensemble recently joined forces with three members of the Nazareth High School band under the direction of St. Edmund 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 ... 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 More ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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, Devyn Hayes, Priscilla Head, Sharon Holmes, Christine King, Temitope Kufeji, Jamie Kuzmicki, Leona Laibhen, More ... 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 ... New York City Councilman Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. (center) is joined by the Belle Harbor School, P.S. 114Q Principal, I. A., Brian O More ... 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 ... A ceremony naming a small stretch of Shore Front Parkway between 108 Street and where Fitzgerald More ... For residents of Rockaway, the Green Buses have been both a lifeline and an annoyance for a very long time. More ... 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 ... |
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