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for larger version       Blood And Platelet Donors Needed Intensely cold weather and several major snowstorms reduced blood and platelet donations to Long Island Blood Services (LIBS) this winter, so LIBS officials are urging people to donate now to help meet local hospital patient demand for life-saving transfusions. More ... Police Blotter Read the Story...
Claddagh Inn marchers participated in the annual James C. Sullivan Memorial St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Claddagh Inn, located at 73-14 Rockaway Beach Blvd., is the oldest food bank in Rockaway. More ... Library Reps: Funding is Overdue By Brian Magoolaghan At least two local branches are feeling the pinch as Queens libraries are shorted as much as three quarters of a million dollars in funding each year, and the situation could soon get worse. More ... Meeks: War Will Make Americans Less Safe Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, of the Sixth Congressional District, which includes much of the east end of Rockaway, joined approximately 15 other members of Congress in a press conference on the Bush Administra-tion’s national security strategy based on preemptive military strikes. More ...
Robert V. Levine, President and Chief Executive Officer at Peninsula Hospital Center (PHC) in Far Rockaway, Queens, recently announced the appointment of Declan K. Lahee to the position of Director of Materials Management. More ...
Lillian Wahab was chosen as the Employee of the Quarter at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital South Shore. Lillian is a nursing attendant in the nursery who has devoted 35 years of service to St. More ...
Katie Rose McMahon proudly shows off her new baby sister, Megan Elizabeth, who was born on Monday, March 3. Megan weighed in at 8 pounds, 13 ounces, and measured 20½ inches long. More ...
Annie will celebrate her first birthday on March 26 with family, friends and proud parents John and Christy Schmitt of Breezy Point. More ...
Princess Bo-Bix Randolph celebrated her fourth birthday on February 22, along with her parents Joe and Joy Randolph at the Rockaway Sunset Diner where Melanie brought out her cake and sang "Happy Birthday." More ... Placed On Honors List Vashanti O. Michell of Far Rockaway, with a major in Psychology, has been recognized by Virginia State University for academic excellence during the Fall 2002 semester. More ...
Michael Anthony Caprio celebrated his First Birthday on February 27. His parents, Katie and David Caprio, of Breezy Point, are expecting their second child in late September. More ... Completed Navy Basic Navy Seaman Jose M. Beltran, son of Herminia Beltran of Far Rockaway, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois. More ...
Dylan Evans, age six, a student in the first grade at P.S. 114, Belle Harbor, was the first place winner of the Twenty-First Annual Jamaica Bay Photography Contest (Children’s Division) sponsored by the National Park Service, Gateway National Park. More ...
Michael Patrylo celebrated his first birthday party on February 290. Michael is the son of John and Doreen Patrylo of Inwood. He’s the grandson of John and Peggy Patrylo of Bayswater. More ...
Ballroom dancers from the Connelly Dance Centers of Richmond Hill and Rockaway Park danced away with first and second place in their first competition. More ... Welcome Baby Brother! Michael Patrick Duffy, Jr. was born on February 19. He weighed ten pounds, measured 22 inches. He was welcomed home by his big sister Meagan Michelle. More ... Completes Basic Army Training Army Pfc. Scott J. Siegel, son of Geoffrey Siegel of Rockaway Park, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan Dr. Kathleen Cashin, the superintendent of the recently created Division Five that includes Rockaway public schools, visited Far Rockaway High School (FRHS) recently at the invitation of the NAACP. More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan A NJ sewer line break, which pumped nearly six hundred million gallons of sewage into the New York Harbor, hasn’t fouled up the waters off Rockaway’s shores, and is not responsible for the mass of clams that recently washed up in Breezy Point, officials of the Department of Environmental Conservat... More ...
The Peninsula Hospital Center Auxiliary welcomed Peggy Scandole, R.N., Clinical Educator in the Department of Nursing at PHC to an auxiliary luncheon meeting where she discussed Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). More ...
The Breezy Point Catholic Club Pipe and Drum Band was formed in July of 2001, and was the brain child of Terry Williams, Jr. and Jim Adams. More ... Workshop Will Address Predatory Lending How many of our friends and neighbors have been victimized by the fraudulent business practices of predatory lenders? Do you know a family member that has joyfully closed on a new home, only to discover later that appraisers, realtors and lenders, acting in collusion, have victimized them? More ... QCA Presents Round Table On March 27 The Queens Council on the Arts presents a Round Table Discussion on Thursday, March 27, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Queens Borough Hall located on Queens Boulevard nearby the Van Wyck Expressway in Kew Gardens. More ... Seek Proposals For Gateway Marina Congressman Anthony Weiner and Gateway National Park are looking for a contractor to operate the Gateway Marina, in Brooklyn, into the next decade. Under the terms of a request for proposal issued by Gateway, the contractor will be expected to put $3. More ... Abuse Survivor Will Share Experience Rockaway Voice of the Faithful will be offering a second Informational Night on Wednesday, March 26, from 7:30 p.m. until 9:15 p.m. More ...
P.S. 215 continues the year on a positive note, selecting the following students as Student of the Month" for January, 2003: More ...
The marching band from Beach Channel High School once again was the winner for the best marching band at the James Conway Sulli-van Queens County St. Pat-rick’s Day Parade a week ago. More ...
Amidst the snow and cold, mixed with occasional rain showers, Stella Maris Juniors provided the sunshine for their Ring Day Ceremony. Pictured (left to right) is Katrina Leddy, Tina Galazin, Christine Varrone, Jackie Geary, Kristeen Maguire and Suzanne Sullivan. More ...
The Black and Women’s History Month Celebration was held at York College in Jamaica, where over 200 paintings were on display. Most of the paintings were done by professional artists. More ...
Senior Krista Lucking and Junior Kristeen Maguire are delighted to hear that their literary work will be published in St. Mary’s Press’ Spring Anthology. More ...
Bishop Kearney High School awarded academic scholarships to members of the Class of 2007, at a dinner held at school to honor them, their parents and their principals. More ...
Beach Channel High School student Stephane Derisma, won the Coca Cola "Celebrate the Technology Essay Contest." Her prize is a laptop computer. More ...
In celebration of the hundredth day of school, each student at P.S. 105, in grades Pre-K through fourth, rec-eived a free book from the RIF collection. More ...
Elliot Guzman, Jr., a fifth grade student from P.S. 197 in Far Rock-away, was honored at the Board of Education on Tues-day, February 4 for his essay on Elizabeth Eckford and how she made a difference in his life. More ...
Under the supervision of their Electrical Installation teacher, Mr. Gerald Greenwald, the senior Thomas A. Edison Vocational & Technical High School students are shown rewiring one of the school’s classrooms. More ... SJEH Hosts Student Art Show St. John’s Episcopal Hospital South Shore will host an opening for a very special art exhibit entitled "Wishes and Secrets of American Youth" created by children from PS 43 and Beach 131st Street who have been affected by September 11 and the crash of Flight 587. More ...
Members of the Development Bo-ard of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital South Shore met on Monday, March 3, to plan its upcoming Ninth Annual Invitational Golf Tournament. More ...
Contributing Editor By Miriam Rosenberg Rockaway and other angry Queens residents confronted members of New York City’s transportation agencies at a Town Hall Meeting on March 5 held at York College. More ... |
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