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for larger version       Ads have a Patent Pending. Click Here for More Information Beachcomber The Department of Education’s Region Five has teamed with the Parks Department and City Councilman Joseph Addabbo to start a development program for prospective lifeguards in an attempt to staff Rockaway beaches next summer. Candidates for the new program must be 16-years-old by March 31, 2006, must More ... Broad Channel Bits By Liz Guarino Warm weather probably will not be in evidence until the Spring of next year. We are on the way to winter. Of course, some holidays are waiting in the wings and others are right around the corner. And they are always fun to buy and/or plan for. And there are lots of events going on in our town to hel More ...
Have You Seen Young’s Window On Central Avenue? From The Rockaway Museum by Emil Lucev, Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke Every time Barney Young created a new window display for his ladies shop at 1043 Central Avenue, the title question made the rounds. Even his competitors admitted that Barney had originality and ability, and maybe a bit of genius thrown in somewhere. Young decorated his own windows and delighted whe More ...
Health Benefits By Dr. Nancy Gahles I am using the term “health benefits” loosely. I use that term because it is the term we associate with insurance coverage. “Benefits” is fast becoming an obsolete word. A benefit is usually something that you get over and above your just compensation. It used to be that when you worked for someone, More ... From the Editor’s Desk By Howard Schwach Had I still been teaching, I would vote a resounding “NO” on the new teacher’s contract. There is no doubt in my mind that the contract is not only retrograde in terms of teacher’s rights, but the raises it promises are largely illusory. More ...
Rockaway Artists Alliance Medium Rayah’s Final Halloween Warning By Susan Hartenstein by Madam Rayah Oh, good people of Rockaway, may you read this e-mail in time! May you be able to escape the horrors to take place tonight and for three more nights to come. For I have just run, panting and gasping, to my state-of-the art computer room with its high-speed internet connection a More ...
by Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey, Democratic District Leader More ...
By Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” So goes the saying attributed to Henry de Bracton, a thirteenth-century English judge. This age-old saying certainly holds meaning when it comes to identity theft, because it is far easier to prevent identity theft than it is to undo the damage once More ...
‘Elizabethtown’ – A Failure About Failure By Robert Snyder Cameron Crowe is a very successful filmmaker who is obsessed with failure. More ... Looking Backward What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago... With assaults-robberies following one day after the other in the area of Beach 105 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, police are beefing up patrol (in uniform and out of uniform) and appealing for people to be more alert and more aware of More ...
By Curtis Archer, Executive Director Some of you may remember when the Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corporation (RDRC) began the task of bringing higher education and training programs to the Rockaway Peninsula. So far the College of New Rochelle has answered the call. More ... The Rockaway Irregular Bill Maher Vs. The President by Stuart W. Mirsky The other night I watched Bill Maher on HBO and felt, when it was over, like I’d been on another planet. Actually, it felt like many other discussions I’ve had recently with those who style themselves politically liberal. Indeed, it was little more than a series of endless diatribes by Maher and his More ... The Rockaway Irregular Vote Your Heart by Stuart W. Mirsky According to the Daily News, one of Rockaway’s two City Councilmen, Democrat James Sanders, who recently beat back an insurgent effort to deny him re-nomination, has come out for Republican mayor Mike Bloomberg in the upcoming election. Citing the mayor’s actions and words, Sanders told the News tha More ... |
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