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Ruth Wander celebrated her 80th birthday on June 16, 2005. Her first party was celebrated at her son’s home along with family and friends. A second surprise party was celebrated at “Let’s Get Physical” Health Care Dimensions. Wander is pictured with her husband, Jack. More ... Top Scores For The Breezy Point Par Tee Golf Ladies By Doris Neimeth June 16th at Riis Park was a cool, foggy, damp, downcast day as twenty-six hardy women hit the links but not the new light poles. But some came close! Our luncheons will start on June 23 at the Catholic Club, 11:30 am and will continue each week thru the end of the season in Sept. On the menu will b More ... Beachcomber Collegiality has gone out the window at the Department of Education (DOE) under Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein. At one time, principals, assistant principals and teachers worked together in District 27 on core design teams and middle school teams. Now, they are at each other’s throats. On Thur More ...
The 100 Precinct Community Council, in a well-attended meeting, honored some of their own Wednesday evening and as well as a hero surfer who pulled a young man to safety three weeks ago. Pictured, Lincoln Mayne (center), the surfer who responded to a multiple drowning by charging into the raging sur... More ... Locals Graduate From St. Saviour Commencement exercises were held at St. Saviour Church on June 3. Seventy percent of the graduating class of 82 students received $3.8 million in scholarship/merit awards. Margaret Bernstein, assistant principal, presented the graduates. More ... ‘Golden Venture’ Vulture Found Guilty In Grounding By Howard Schwach The woman who masterminded and bankrolled the ill-fated voyage of the “Golden Venture,” the ship that wounded up foundering on the shores of Rockaway in 1993 was convicted on Wednesday of running a global smuggling ring that included the grounding that left ten Chinese nationals dead on our shore. M More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan Police arrested four people and seized a stockpile of crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and cash Tuesday during an early morning raid on a Hammels apartment. More ...
The Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways hosted its Annual Meeting at the Beach Club on Monday, drawing approximately 100 business people and community activists. Pictured, from left, Chamber President John Lepore with vice presidents Harold Cornell and Barbara Morris. More ...
Five-year old Anthony Echevarria of Far Rockaway will graduate from Kindergarten at P.S. 106 on June 23, 2005. Anthony is the son of Anthony and Rosemarie Echevarria. More ...
Steven Keenan, a former Wave intern, will graduate from Middle College High School on Friday, June 24, 2005. Steven is the son of Carol and John Keenan and the brother of Jack and Patrick. He will attend SUNY Plattsburgh this fall. More ...
Keanu Alameda will graduate from Kindergarten at P.S. 106 on June 23, 2005. Keanu is the son of Tara Alameda. More ...
Jennifer Nicole Quagliariello of Neponsit will celebrate her second birthday on Saturday, June 18, 2005. Jennifer is the daughter of Ilene and Anthony Quagliariello and the little sister of Christopher. More ...
Many Republicans will not be seeing Ed O’Hare, Republican District Leader, at their door to sign petitions this year. O’Hare is enjoying his first few weeks as a new father with his son, Edward Vincent, who arrived on May 23, 2005 at 7 lbs. 14 oz. O’Hare says he’s still committed to the entire 23rd ... More ... Bispham On Kearsarge Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Remenia K. Bispham, daughter of Marie Hodge and Abdo Alkaifi of Inwood, and her shipmates are in the middle of a scheduled deployment, while assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, homeported in Norfolk, Va. More ...
Allison Cashen, a graduate of Stella Maris High School and the College of Mount Saint Vincent, received her Masters of Physical Therapy from Hunter College on June 8, 2005. Cashen also received the Clinical Education Award at graduation. She is the daughter of Joan and Ed Cashen of Rockaway Beach. More ... Named To Dean’s List Jemella Raymore of Far Rockaway has been named to the Dean’s List at Syracuse University for the Spring 2005 semester. Raymore is a sophomore majoring in biology. More ...
Northeast Regional State of the African-American Male Initiative Conference (SAAM) opened last Saturday to an enthusiastic capacity audience of more than 1,000. Attendees from New York and New Jersey began arriving at the New York University School of Law as early as 7:30 a.m. for the day-long forum More ...
The Parks Department recently held a Beach Bum Dog contest at Bay 8. Dogs had to wear beach attire and one dog was crowned “Best in Show Beach Dog.” Puck, a dapple mini dachshund, rescued by Donna Marino, won the grand prize and received a Parks Department certificate and $50 gift certificate to the... More ...
Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer recently greeted the Honorable Eugene Hutchinson, Ambassador and Counsel General of Ireland to Albany. Pheffer and other lawmakers shared a typical day on Capitol Hill as Hutchinson’s assignment in the United States near its end. More ...
Father James Mark Gilligan, M.M., a Brooklyn resident who serves mass at Rockaway Point., will celebrate his 50 More ...
The Beach Channel Train And Fishing Station – 1888 to 1903 From The Rockaway Museum by Emil Lucev, Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke It has been 102 years since the once famous fishing station was destroyed by fire. When the “A” train to Rockaway Park or Far Rockaway (of the NYC IND Rapid Transit System) leaves Broad Channel Station, it first crosses the waterway known as Broad Channel, and then runs over a landfill island. More ...
Local environmentalist and President of the Friends of Rockaway, Bernie Blum, believes that surface runoff from concrete and asphalt is pouring into the Jamaica Bay. Vegetation buffers, however, protect Jamaica Bay by slowing and metabolizing the chemical pollution (heavy metals, insecticides, etc.) More ...
Photos by Miriam Rosenberg The Philip Port Memorial Unit of the American Cancer Society (ACS) of Queens raised $6,400 during its 45th More ...
By Brian Magoolaghan Cops doused a heated confrontation between a group of teenagers and about 100 fight-hungry spectators last week before it could become a full-blown battle on the beach, The Wave has learned. More ...
Amit Kapoor will graduate today as the salutatorian of Beach Channel High School. Kapoor has maintained a 97+ average throughout his four years at BCHS and received a 1200 on his SAT’s. More ... State Senate OK’s AA 587 Scholarship Bill State Senator Malcolm A. Smith recently applauded the Senate’s passage of legislation he co-sponsored that establishes a college scholarship fun to assist spouses, children and dependents of victims killed in the November 12, 2001 crash of American Airlines flight 587 in Rockaway. More ...
With asthma being a big problem in the Rockaways, a member of Peninsula Hospital’s Pulmonary Function unit gives a young man a breathing test at the June 18 fair. Photos by Miriam Rosenberg More ...
Walter Benjamin was a young man when he first met Lillian in 1946. He ran a plumbing supply business in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. She was looking for a job. More ...
By Howard Schwach An all-hands fire destroyed a Rockaway bungalow on Wednesday as dozens of firefighters from fire units from throughout the peninsula fought the fire. More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor City Councilman James Sanders, Jr. came bearing gifts when he visited P.S. 42 on June 21. At that time, he informed Principal Riva Madden that he had secured $35,000 for new computers for the school. More ...
The Rotary Club of the Rockaway’s installed its 2005/2006 officers at its annual installation dinner at Kennedy’s On the Bay last Wednesday evening, June 15th. More ...
The “Klez Dispensers,” a group that presents traditional and non-traditional Jewish music will take the spotlight on Sunday, June 24 at Fort Tilden as the Rockaway Music And Arts Council (RMAC) hosts the first of several Sunset Picnic Concerts. The concert will begin at 6 p.m. and those who attend a More ...
The first annual Richie Allen Memorial Surfing Contest was a big success, according to coordinators for the event. The event couldn’t have taken place without the local surf shop Boarders More ...
Democratic District Leader Lew Simon sells raffles and urges Frank Bissitti and Donna Neuer to join the Cancer Society. More ...
Charlie’s Angels Team takes its lap around the track More ...
P.S. 183 held their annual Spring Concert to a packed audience on May 26. The standing room only crowd was treated to song and dance by second through sixth grade students. More ...
Kiana Howerton, daughter of Rick and Deborah Howerton, graduated from the 3rd grade at P.S. 106 with numerous awards. Howerton is the granddaughter of Mildred Butler Smith. More ...
Briyanna Lakiesha Hutchinson, daughter of Levy and Jeannine Hutchinson of Far Rockaway was accepted into the P.S. 106 Astre Program for gifted students. Hutchinson scored the highest in her class on all state exams. More ...
Six St. Camillus students participated in the Stock Market Game program. David Penaranda, Matt Leonen, Kamil Lowe, Lukasz Stanczyk, Vincenzo Tonolete and Philip Tobiasz, under the direction of their teacher, Christine Jackson, ranked 13th out of 142 teams when the stock market investing was complete... More ...
Early morning learners in grades three through five have attended a special program at P.S. 106 for eight weeks to raise their math and literacy levels. Third graders Leroy and Temi are pictured with their certificates of merit for attendance in the program. More ...
Incoming P.S. 114Q Principal, I.A., Stephen P. Grill, as he calls all in attendance to order, for the commencement of the daily Belle Harbor School morning exercises. A quiet hush falls over the schoolyard, as students and faculty prepare to recite The Pledge of Allegiance and harmonize God Bless ... More ...
Two more old Far Rockaway High School pictures to spur your memory. The first picture is obviously the school’s rifle team sometime in the mid-1940’s. In the middle are coach Richie Sierra and principal Monica D. Ryan. Who were the young men? More ...
The second man accused of murdering a female cashier during an armed robbery of a Far Rockaway Chinese food restaurant was convicted this week, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced. More ...
A Far Rockaway man was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for raping a 12-year-old girl who he met after she accidentally dialed his cell phone, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced. More ...
Ken Zwolinski grew up summering in the Rockaways and his family later moved there in the early 1970’s from Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. He has been living out in Scottsdale Arizona for eight years now and he says that he always loves to read the historical views that are published in The W More ...
A break in an old 12-inch water main at the corner of Beach Channel Drive and Beach 136 Street on Monday disrupted traffic on the main east-west thoroughfare for hours. Water flooded both Beach Channel Drive and local north-south streets until crews from the city’s Department of Environmental Protec... More ...
Twenty-two students graduated from VNS Prep Alternative High School on Friday, June 17, 2005. Among the graduates this year were Chris Diaz, Alia Gibson, Samantha Banks, Samantha Catalano, Brendan Wallace, Lisa Samuels, Veronika Hinnant, Kevin Gahn, Areatha Mulrain, Kenneth McIntosh, Rakelle Blair, ... More ...
Ben and Mary Lenihan will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 26 at the Beach Club. Among the attendees will be children, John, Margie and Matthew, grandchildren, Thomas, Patrick, Christine, Megan and Matthew, and a host of family and friends.Ben, born in County Cork, and Mary, born in ... More ...
Seven-year old Christopher Stone loves dropping in on the six-foot half pipe at the Rockaway Skate Park. The new hours for skaters give him more time to practice his move. More ... |
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