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City Council Member Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., has announced that he and the New York City Parks Department will sponsor a family day at Rockaway Beach. More ... Rescue workers raced to Beach 120 Street and Beach Channel Drive last Friday morning to pull a man, who police said leapt from the bay wall, from the waters of Jamaica Bay. The NYPD Harbor Emergency Service Units, EMS and the NYFD all responded. More ... The Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways hosted its annual golf outing last week. From left, Steve Good, the owner of the Beach Club, the venue for the award dinner, Allen Corby, Liz Sulik (both of PHC), Roy Messerole, Joanine Omeste (Chamber Executive Director), John Lepore (P Chamber President), Barbara Morris, John Hennessey and Linda Plummer (both Chamber Vice Presidents). More ... Colman Genn had a profound impact on education in Rockaway as well as in New York City as a whole, but few here not connected to the public school system will remember his name. More ... Top row, left to right: Brittany Rivera, Claudia Manganiello, Nicole Yamorski, Samantha Travers, Jada Barta. Center row, left to right: Rebecca Wynter, Jasmine Brunson, Veronica Welsh, Brianne Brunson. Bottom row, left to right: Clarissa Barnes, Lauren Moule and Sydney Lyncook. More ... On August 4, NYC will auction off about 20 small parcels of land in Broad Channel. Dan Mundy, president of the Jamaica Bay Eco Watchers, and Don Riepe, Jamaica Bay Guardian have agreed that some of these parcels are important wetlands and should be turned over to NYC Department of Parks & Recreation More ... The borough of Queens South Graffiti Clean Up gathered in Rockaway on Saturday, July 17, to clean 12 locations on the peninsula. Among the participating groups in the clean up effort were the 100 Precinct Explorers, NYPD School Safety Explorers Posts 2222 and 2241 from the 113 and 107 Precincts, the More ... The Graybeards recently collected $21,000 for the community of Julian, California. The money was raised to benefit the eight Julian volunteer firefighters who responded to the October 2003 wildfires in San Diego and subsequently lost their homes in the blaze. The Graybeards collected the money in th More ... The 101 and 100 precincts, the two NYPD police precincts that serve Rockaway, joined the other precincts that make up the Queens South Command at an Annual Harmony Picnic that took place at Cunningham Park on July 20. More ... The two City Council members who represent Rockaway have teamed together to provide $500 thousand for the building effort of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, a spokesperson for the center announced recently. More ... Congressman Gregory W. Meeks has welcomed the results of the International Donors Conference on Haiti, which concluded on Tuesday. The United States and other international donors pledged just over $1 billion to help rebuild Haiti, an amount that exceeded the conference goal of $924 million. More ... More than 300 summer school students and faculty were evacuated from PS 43 in Edgemere on Wednesday, when a construction crew working nearby a high-pressure gas main punctured the main, releasing gas to the atmosphere. More ... The small speedboat and trailer seen here, just a few feet west of the Beach Channel High School boat ramp, has been parked in the same spot for more than a week and is angled out into traffic, which creates a hazard at night when it is harder to see.The boat, which was gutted and is now just a fiberglass shell, has two small reflectors yet is still hard to see at night. More ... Christina Carter of Arverne recently caught a big fish in Margaretville in upstate New York. The nine year old caught the fish with only two small pieces of kernel corn. More ... Anthony Colon of Rockaway Beach graduated with a Master of Public Administration from Clark University in Massachusetts on Sunday, May 23. Colon attended Talent Unlimited High School. More ... Navy Seaman Apprentice Gregory Riley, son of Lenora J. and Anthony P. Riley of Far Rockaway, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Riley completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical in More ... Hazardous, filthy and unhealthy- those are some of the words used to describe the state of the former courthouse on Beach Channel Drive and Beach 92 Street by Rockaway resident Jim Hurley, who provided these pictures to The Wave. More ... An Arverne man has been charged with theft of Unemployment Insurance benefits in an investigation that found 12 Queens residents involved in that illegal activity. More ... Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer has announced that a major agreement has been reached between the Assembly and Senate to increase the state More ... The Ninth Annual Sandcastle Contest sponsored by Barbara Morris of West End Realty will be held on the Beach at Beach 116 Street on Sunday, July 25. Registration will begin at noon, with the contest itself lasting from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. More ... As garbage piles reached the second floor of 249 Beach 15 Street and the foul stench of overflowing toilets filled the building, over 100 tenants screamed at policemen Tuesday in search of answers. More ... |
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