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My colleagues and I in the House and Senate have recessed for the month of August. Ordinarily, most of us spend part of the recess working in our respective districts as well as spending time with our families who see far too little of us. Ordinarily, Congress takes its August recess without much fa More ... + 12:00 noon on UHF Chs. 35 & 26 Monday - Friday It was the wedding of the year, the first I have heard of where a marriage ceremony was performed on the Bayside Beach at the foot of 219. More ... Every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Fort Tilden through August 24 on the outdoor Rockaway Moon Stage between sTudio 6 and sTudio 7 Galleries. (Inside sTudio 7 if it rains.) BYO blankets, chairs, coolers, family and friends. For information please call (718) 474-0861, e-mail More ... August is nearly halfway gone! Where did the time go? Summer is almost over-and in our little corner of the world, that means only one thing. It is almost time for Countdown Friday, Family Fun Day, Making a Float and the Grand Parade. More ... Mayor Edward I. Koch came to Rockaway this week to flail the holder of the seat in the Sixth Congressional District and endorse a competing candidate in a primary election on Tuesday, September 10. He endorsed the Rev. Floyd Flake, who lost by a hair (after absentee ballots were counted) on June 10, More ... Thursday, August 17, State Senator Malcolm Smith will speak at a Town Hall meeting to be held at the Ellen Connolly Dance Studio, 114-03 Beach Channel Drive on the ground floor. It is across the street from our office and next to the Post Office and Waldbaum's parking lot. More ... This shot of the Rockaway Park Boardwalk was taken from atop Curley's Hotel at the Beachfront, on the west side of Beach 116 Street. The Promenade was twenty feet wide and less than two feet in height. More ... While the Parks Department continues to say that there are plenty of lifeguards to patrol our beaches, anybody who lives in Rockaway knows that it not true. On Wednesday, July 26, for example, a survey showed the following: five lifeguards total on the beaches between Beach 9 Street to Beach 76 Stre More ... I hope you were able to fare well during the most recent barbarous heat wave. It was dreadful; yet it reminded me once again just how lucky we are to live here. Getting through it was made easier by the thought that as I left my office on the mainland, I was fortunate enough to be driving all the wa More ... Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He can be contacted at More ... Congratulations to Joan Farrell on receiving the Community Beautification Award at Chapey's Trinity Services Fourth Annual Luncheon. Farrell is a remarkable asset to our community. She has been married for fifty years to Joseph H. Farrell, Esq. who was born More ... For many years, I have decided to steer my comments regarding the Middle East to platitudes about negotiations. History demands that all people understand each other's perspective and history before any settlement of conflict can be obtained. Conflict generally leads to more conflict. More ... It's a cruel twist of fate (or Hollywood calculation) that comic-actor Luke Wilson should have a movie vehicle open the same time as did his comicactor brother, Owen. With Luke's "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" up against Owen's "You, Me and Dupree," it becomes painfully clear who is the better laugh-gette More ... |
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