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for larger version       Beachcomber 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 – way behind. The prestigious Quinnipiac University poll shows that former Bronx Bor 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 ... Chamber Names Honorees For ‘Bravest And Finest’ 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 Named To Dean’s List Marianne Dologuin, daughter of Mario and Lourdes Dologuin of Rockaway Park, has been named to the Dean’s List at Simon’s Rock College of Bard for the Fall 2004 semester. The college is the only four-year liberal arts and science college in the country specifically designed for students under 18 year More ...
One of the brand new Arverne By the Sea homes was used Monday to film scenes for “The Night Listener” a film starring Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh and Rory Culkin. More ...
About 35 guests joined Deputy Inspector Paul Piekarski (left) at The Beach Club last Friday in celebrating his promotion. “I’m so glad that I got promoted here (at the 100 Pct.) because it makes it that much sweeter… It’s a reward for me, the cops and the community,” Piekarski told City Councilman J... More ...
Several Rockaway residents were spotted at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in The Villages, Florida. Among them were Jim and Mary Kelly of Rockaway Park, Sheila Kerins of Roxbury, Carol Ramsdell of Breezy Point, Pudge and Pat Williams of Belle Harbor, Rita Early (former Rockaway summer resident) and Si... 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’s Bloodborne Pathogens Standard at Beach Channel High School and its District 75 Special Education component, PS 223. More ... Car Snaps Wildlife Refuge Utility Pole 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 ... Backyard Composting At Fort Tilden April 10 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 ... Synagogue Holds Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom Hashoah – the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed at Congregation Ohab Zedek in Belle Harbor on Thursday evening, May 5 at 8 p.m. The program will commence with a special service in the Main Sanctuary of the Synagogue in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust More ...
Hadassah’s Annual Heart Awards Luncheon will honor Florence Epstein from Hadassah’s ranks and Ken and Steve Good from the Rockaway community. The Luncheon will be held on May 10 at the Lawrence County Club. Under the chairmanship of Faye Cohen (for more than 45 years) this is Hadassah’s most awaited More ... Floyd Bennett Bike Tour Set By NPS 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 ... Smith: Home Repair Grants Available 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 ... Backyard Composting At Fort Tilden 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’Keef aka Patty Walsh. Police describe him as a white male in his 30s. All information will be kept confidential. Call Detective Barry at (718) 318-4221. More ... Fire Prevention At Temple Beth-El April 11 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 “Fire Prevention in houses 50 years and over.” There will be a demonstration on the use of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. 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’s $100 a plate, black tie affair, “Be A Fool For The Arts.” More ... MetroCard Van Coming To Rockaway Read the Story... Motorcycle ‘Steal Man’ Sentenced To Prison 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 wo... 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’s pictures as bein... More ...
The Students of the Week from P256 visited Peninsula Hospital Center’s Angels on the Bay Pediatric Unit to spread some holiday cheer and distribute Easter Baskets made by the students as part of a Community Awareness Project. Students from SIE#3 made the greeting cards which were also distributed t 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 ... More ...
Whatever the problem - social workers work to effectively solve them. The right combination of education, experience, training and dedication assist the Social Work team in understanding complex support systems and assist them in connecting people to the needed resources. Members of the Peninsula Ho... More ...
By Howard Schwach According to the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., 97,247 Czech Jews died at Terezin, better known as Theresienstadt, the “Model Ghetto,” where Nazi’s took the Red Cross to see the humanity of their death camps. More ...
Students from 43 toured and sketched at the special Jean-Michael Basquiat exhibit, which opened recently at the Brooklyn Museum. More ...
by Shirley Golub 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’s production of “Cinderella” early on in the school year. 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 ...
Brian Wagner’s physics class at St. Edmund Prep High School recently conducted their annual egg-drop experiment. The goal of the experiment was for students to construct an apparatus, without using parachutes, that would allow an egg to survive drops from various heights. The heights ranged from the... More ... School Scope Diane Ravitch and John Dewey Award – Not A Match By Norman Scott Let’s call it the Pataki/Silver UFT Political Expediency Award. More ... The Progressive Why I Am A Progressive By John Paul Culotta 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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