City Councilman Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. announced that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has summer job openings for students to work as toll collectors at the Marine Parkway and Cross Bay Bridges in Brooklyn and Queens. More...
Narendra Hadpawat, M.D., Director of Medicine at Peninsula Hospital Center recently announced the appointment of Jay Kenneth Mehlman, M.D. as Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Hospital Center. More...
Police are investigating a brutal stabbing in Far Rockaway last week that sent a man in his early 20s to the hospital with wounds throughout his upper body. More...
Stella Maris Athletic Director, Ellen Faughnan, was inducted into the Girls Catholic High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame recently. She earned the honor serving as a coach and then athletic director for more than 25 years. More...
The St. Francis de Sales First Grade Girls Soccer Team, along with their siblings and cousins, recently collected items for the American troops in Iraq. More...
Beach Channel High School participated in the largest service event in the world on Friday, April 15, when 150 students joined National Youth Service Day. More...
Stella Maris seniors Shawna Bobbitt and Angela Minerva were honored by Creative Communications, Inc., and will have their essays published in the new anthology, More...
The Seaside Library will hold its book sale on May 12, 13 and 16 at its branch at 116-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Among the items offered will be books, CDs, audio books, DVD More...
The second stage of the new landscaping at First Congregational Church of Christ recently took place. The work took place under the supervision of Harry Fauser of Harry More...
The Rockaway Rowdies were in Flushing representing the Rockaway area on a rainy April 29, when Shea Stadium was host to the first American Cancer Society Relay for Life held in a baseball stadium. The day was gray, but spirits weren More...
Mary Craine Bachner, right, (coordinator of the Fourth Annual Rockaway Multicultural Family Festival planning committee) accepts Chamber of Commerce More...
New York City firefighters and spouses (active and retired) are invited to a two-day relationship enhancement seminar at St. Rose of Lima Parish on May 15 and May 21 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. More...
On Thursday May 12, The Good Government Democratic Club will host a Town Hall meeting bringing the two highest Democratic citywide elected officials, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum and Comptroller William Thompson to Rockaway. More...
A Hammels teenager was arrested last Friday after a cop saw him use paper and a match to set fire to an apartment door in the housing complex, police said. More...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has given Representative. Anthony Weiner, who represents a portion of Rockaway, its highest More...
Gina Rivera, daughter of Jose and Justina Rivera of Bayswater and graduate of Beach Channel High School and the New York Institute of Technology, married David Matos of Florida on February 20, 2005. The ceremony was held at the Jehovah More...
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Aldith A. Gray, daughter of Mable Gray of Far Rockaway, recently returned from a routine scheduled deployment, while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. More...
Eighteen students were inducted into the National Honor Society last week at Stella Maris. All inductees must have a cumulative average of 88 and no failures on their record. More...
