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The good news for Congressman Anthony Weiner is that a recent poll shows that he is now slightly ahead of Council Speaker Giff Miller in the mayoral race. The bad news is that he and Miller are behind everybody else More ... City Councilman Joseph Addabbo, Jr. recently hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for Rockaway youngsters on Beach 73 Street. Pictured, Addabbo speaks with some of the many children who participated. More ... The Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways will host their annual Bravest and Finest Awards Luncheon at the Beach Club (Beach 116 Street) on April 21 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. The luncheon honors police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians from each of the local units. More ... Marianne Dologuin, daughter of Mario and Lourdes Dologuin of Rockaway Park, has been named to the Dean More ... About 35 guests joined Deputy Inspector Paul Piekarski (left) at The Beach Club last Friday in celebrating his promotion. More ... By Howard Schwach The New York City Department of Education has been paying a fine of $16,000 a month for more than a year for its violation of the state More ... Police are investigating a single car accident in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that left a utility pole snapped like a twig early last Sunday morning. More ... The National Park Service at Gateway National Recreation Area, in partnership with the Queens Botanical Garden, is offering the public an opportunity to learn about backyard composting. No natural gardening program is complete without composting! Nature renews the soil and its nutrients by recycli More ... The National Park Service at Gateway National Recreation Area is offering the public an opportunity to learn about the many historic, recreational, and natural treasures found at Floyd Bennett Field on a guided bicycle tour. This tour will take place on Saturday, April 16 at 1:00 p.m., meet at the More ... State Senator Malcolm A. Smith has announced that Neighborhood Housing Services of Jamaica (NHS) is offering grants of up to $15,000 to 25 owners of one- and two-family homes. Funds may be used for health and safety related repairs; electrical, plumbing and carpentry repairs; and window, door, hand More ... The National Park Service at Gateway National Recreation Area, in partnership with the Queens Botanical Garden, is offering the public an opportunity to learn about backyard composting. No natural gardening program is complete without composting! Nature renews the soil and its nutrients by recycli More ... The 100 Precinct Detectives are looking for information regarding the whereabouts of Patrick O More ... The Social Concerns Committee of Temple Beth-El has arranged an open meeting with the Fire Department on Monday evening, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. The subject will be More ... City Councilman Joseph Addabbo, Jr. recently hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for Rockaway youngsters on Beach 73 Street. Pictured, Addabbo speaks with some of the many children who participated. More ... The ubiquitous and versatile Wave Editorial Cartoonist, Robert Sarnoff, drew a crowd Saturday night, April 2 at The Beach Club at the Rockaway Artists Alliance More ... A Bayswater man was sentenced last week to four-and-a-half to nine-and-a-half years in prison for his role in a in a $1 million motorcycle theft and fencing ring, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced. More ... The Rockaway Skate Park on Beach 90 Street and Shore Front Parkway reopened last weekend with a new set of separate operating hours for skaters and BMX bike riders. More ... The Rockaway Museum is presently hosting a series of workshops for young people at libraries around the peninsula. Last week, noted watercolorist Arlene Cornell, whose paintings of local scenes hang in many Rockaway homes, presented a workshop at the Seaside Branch of the Queens Library. Students worked with Cornell to produce watercolor paintings. More ... The staff at the Rockaway Museum has been rooting through the material loaned by the grandson of long-time Far Rockaway High School Athletic Director Harry Luft. They are looking for some identification on the people in these photographs. Several people identified one of last week More ... The Rockaway Artists Alliance (RAA) urges all local residents to come and celebrate the work of unique artist, poet and photographer Martha Elliott Killian. More ... Peninsula Hospital Center volunteer and auxilian, Aleaze Logan, was honored by the United Hospital Fund at their annual Achievement Awards Ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Monday, April 4, 2005. Joining Aleaze at the awards presentation were fellow auxilians and family members. Left to right: More ... According to the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., 97,247 Czech Jews died at Terezin, better known as Theresienstadt, the More ... Students from 43 toured and sketched at the special Jean-Michael Basquiat exhibit, which opened recently at the Brooklyn Museum. More ... Through the Rockaway Music and Arts Council Music Program, which is chaired by Myra Berger, the students of PS 114 were treated to the NYC Opera More ... Dr. Howard Ditcheck visited Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School to examine the school mascot, Bunny the rabbit, a two-year old Rex rabbit. More ... In recent years, people who would have called themselves liberals in this country have begun to call themselves progressive. This column, for instance, is called The Progressive and not the Liberal. Although I feel no shame if I were called liberal, I believe my political instincts go back to the Pr More ... |
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