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Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a City Council bill that he hopes will save Jamaica Bay More ... Chris Kakoulas came to America in 1990, looking for the American dream. He looked around and settled in Rockaway, where he bought a building at 112-16 Rockaway Beach Boulevard with a restaurant at ground level and apartments above. More ... A House-Senate Conference Committee passed the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill on Thursday after 22 months of debate and compromise. More ... Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a City Council bill that he hopes will save Jamaica Bay More ... On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee accepted an amendment, offered by Representative. Anthony Weiner that would ban the transfer of fake police badges, except for legitimate law enforcement efforts and dramatic presentations. More ... Local police busted a 24-year-old Nassau County man who arranged an illicit rendezvous with an underage Rockaway girl that he met in an Internet chat room, law enforcement sources said. More ... Ron Delsener presents Davy Jones, Gary Puckett, Chuck Negron and the Ides of March vat the North Fork Theatre at Westbury for one hot night of 60 More ... The City Council voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to eliminate metered parking on Sundays, sparking speculation locally that the move would have a negative impact on west end business located nearby the beach. More ... Brooklyn College, in partnership with The Center for Legal Studies, will offer the Paralegal Certificate Course live lectures in the fall of 2005. More ... Former Congressman Floyd H. Flake, the Pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church, is endorsing Councilman James Sanders Jr. in his re-election bid. More ... As a result of the recent wave of extreme humidity and high temperatures, blood donations fell by 25 percent, leaving the community blood supply at risk and in a critical More ... In the early days of our country, the Founding Fathers recognized that a viable democracy required an informed citizenry. One of the first agencies created by the Continental Congress was the Post Office Department, and one of the most important reasons was to create a means for delivering the news More ... Things should be back to normal this week at Ocean Village, almost two weeks after a blackout left nearly 450 residents without electricity, air conditioning, water or elevators. More ... A Far Rockaway man faces up to 25 years in prison after DNA evidence recently linked him to a rape that happened six years ago, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown has announced. More ... A Far Rockaway man was arrested on Queens Boulevard last Friday morning after the woman whose car and purse he tried to steal fought him off, police said.The attempted robbery unfolded at about 8:30 a.m. on 63 Road in Flushing when Darryl R. Allen, 41, jumped into the passenger seat of a car occupie More ... Queens Borough President Helen Marshall will address the Regular Democratic Club of the Rockaways at 104-02 Rockaway Beach Boulevard on Wednesday, August 3 at 8 p.m. sharp. More ... Tina Vendlands, a Rockaway resident, graduated on June 29, 2005 from Katharine Gibbs with an Associate More ... Kathleen Holloway (nee Tuffy) graduated this May with honors from the College of New Rochelle with a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts. She will be taking the summer off before going back to school in order to achieve a Masters in Psychology. Kathleen has also graduated with honors from St. Virgilius School (Class of More ... Kindergartner Princess Bo-Bix Randolph, who reads at the level of a third grader, graduated on Thursday, June 23. Her parents are Joe and Joy Randolph. More ... Divina Marie Machuca of Rockaway Beach has entered the Police Academy. She is a graduate of Kingsborough Community College with an Associate More ... The Rock Ambulance Corps, a volunteer service made up primarily of local residents, has asked the city to turn over the abandoned firehouse on Beach 57 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard to them as a headquarters. Last week More ... Using a spray cap, children on Beach 16 Street in Far Rockaway enjoy the cool feeling of water from a hydrant on a recent hot day. The New York City Office of Emergency Management has reminded city residents to obtain a free city-approved spray cap from a local firehouse to legally open a fire hydrant. Illegally opened fire hydrants waste 1,000 gallons of water per minute. They also reduce needed water pressure to medical facilities and in case of a fire. If you see an illegally opened hydrant, call 311 to report it. Photo by Miriam Rosenberg More ... Lyuba Shchybchyk Rose, a soprano who trained in Russia, and who has graced a number of professional productions, was the winner of the Rockaway Music And Art Talent Search, held Sunday evening at Fort Tilden. She was awarded her $1,000 prize by John Musumeci and organization president Barbara Eisenstadt. More ... It looks like the Rockaway Theatre Company has brought another hit production to the Post Theater in Fort Tilden. July 15 and 16 marked the opening weekend of More ... Last Saturday, youngsters and adults spent an afternoon of discovery and fun at the First Annual Plover Day held on the beach at Beach 58 Street. More ... The 3rd annual Graybeards Family Run kicks off in Belle Harbor on Friday July 29 at 6:30 p.m., organizers said. More ... State Senator Malcolm Smith, who represents the entire Rockaway peninsula, began a listening tour throughout his district, with a meeting at Peninsula Hospital Center on July 20. Smith said that the tour is designed to bring the senator back in touch with the people who he represents. More ... The Belle Harbor Yacht Club was humbled recently by their Breezy Point counterparts in a series of doubles tennis matches. Wave Editorial Cartoonist Bob Sarnoff was among the losers. This is his account. More ... MaryEllen Kiernan from St Camillus Special Olympics watches as Flip Mullen of the Graybeards accepts a $1,000 donation from the Rockaway Point Association as their gift to the Wounded Warrior Project. Terri Cassidy, President of the RPA makes the donation. Photo by Phil Gilson More ... |
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