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A notorious Rockaway crime figure and two other men were arrested and charged last week in a five-year-old case in which a local man was brutally murdered hours after a drug deal went sour. More...

Pesticide spraying in the peninsula’s mosquito-plagued areas is scheduled for Monday night, and officials are asking for the public’s help in this round of the battle to beat the skeeters. More...

Tribute Park project coordinator Dan Mundy holds onto a newly installed steel vertical support attached to the base of what will soon be the park’s dome. Work on the park, which saw a flurry of activity last weekend and this week, should continue steadily for the next several months, Mundy said. The... More...

United States Postal Inspectors remained tight-lipped at press time about an evening excursion on Wednesday to the Smile USA Market at 917 Cross Bay Boulevard in Broad Channel. More...

 City Council Speaker  A. Gifford Miller will address the Good Government Regular Democratic club on Thursday June 23. More...
Nine exemplary women of determination and accomplishment now inhabit sTudio 6 Gallery in Fort Tilden and will remain there through June 26. A tenth exemplary woman of determination and accomplishment is responsible for them being there – indeed for their very existence. For it is the More...
The first item today is a very important administrative one. Next week all teams must send their captain or a representative to the beach at 5:45 p.m. for a short but critical meeting. The topic will be net set-up and court arrangement. We are going to clear up a somewhat confusing situation once an More...
Somebody once said, “The beginning of wisdom is the understanding that there are problems without solutions.” I don’t know who said it, and not even the Web helped in finding out the original author, but whoever is was, he or she probably had the beach on Rockaway in mind. As you all know by now, a More...
Lifeguards Blew Them Away Dear Editor;
Lifeguards knew about the rip tide. I am so sorry to hear about the swimmers who died on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on Beach 93 Street due to a rip tide. More...
Gateway Happenings Introduction to Canoeing, More...
James M. Brady, a lifelong Rockaway resident, died May 31. More...