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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 ... 20 Years Ago... Despite promises by city officials to cease dumping in the Edgemere Landfill by trucks from other sanitation districts, the dumping continues. Late night and early morning drivers passing by the landfill have reported seeing trucks with the code QS13 painted on the side. The Q More ... Word on the street is that Steven Good has taken on the task of reopening the "Last Stop Caf More ... Across the country, mutual fund companies are now offering - or will soon offer - their version of an investment vehicle known as the Individually Managed Account (IMA). IMAs provide access to the expertise of some of the country's finest private money management firms and the ability to create a cu More ... In most high schools throughout our country, young girls cannot go on a field trip, take an aspirin, or participate in sex education without their parent's permission. Nothing, however, prevents these same girls from being transported to another state to undergo a life altering and secret abortion. More ... The sunlight used to stream into the house at 5 a.m.; now it's still pretty dark at 5:30 and getting up for work is harder when it's somewhat dark. And, of course, darkness comes earlier in the evening now than it did in the middle of the summer. These changes sort of creep up on everyone-they're s More ... During one climatic moment in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," a spectacular two-NASCAR crash seems to go on endlessly, the bashed-up autos tumbling over and over until the stadium announcers decide to cut to a commercial. When the TV ad ends, the cars are still doing cartwheels. More ... The Baby Boomers who hosted the 60th Birthday Bash would like to thank Mary Armour, Jeanie & Mike Byrnes, Isabelle & Pete Glowacz, Laura & John Heeseman, Jane Morgan and Dee & Walter Ward for hiring photographer Kathy Sebade to capture the memories made that day that lasted through the night. The ph More ... Monarch Butterfly Migration You may have noticed many Monarch Butterflies passing through our area. These insects are migrating ... winging their way toward Mexico where they will settle in for the winter. They are among the most recognized of all butterflies being having orange color with More ... The handsome couple posing for this souvenir photo were all smiles (I guess!) under that seriously sober pose in the San Francisco studio, on the Bowery or Amusement Midway in the Seaside section of Rockaway Beach. More ... "To sleep, perchance to dream." This quote from Shakespeare has always been a favorite of mine. Shakespeare, the master of narration of human complexities, ironies and intrigue was anything but subtle in his tales of woe. I was taken to thinking about this quote of his as I walked the beach an More ... The sunlight used to stream into the house at 5 a.m.; now it's still pretty dark at 5:30 and getting up for work is harder when it's somewhat dark. And, of course, darkness comes earlier in the evening now than it did in the middle of the summer. These changes sort of creep up on everyone-they're s More ... |
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