Beach Channel High School celebrated homecoming last Saturday with a football game against Campus Magnet High School that was dedicated to Schermiela Palmer, the 16-year-old junior who died two weeks ago after running a lap around the school track. Members of the junior class are seen at the game, w More...
A police car responding to an emergency call from other officers collided with a civilian automobile on Beach Channel Drive on Wednesday night, sending two police officers and the female driver of the second vehicle to area hospitals. More...
Angelo Varisco did not live in Rockaway and the 25-year-old man was killed on September 22 in Mineola when the motorcycle he was driving veered into the side of a 2005 Lexus with such force that his helmet was knocked off his head. Despite those facts, Varisco's ties to Rockaway are so strong that a More...
Rockaways' Playland and selected parcels around the amusement park were sold Monday, September 29, about 10:30 p.m., to Shore horizons, for development. Tentative plans call for erecting middle to high-income housing (predominantly condominiums) on the site. Peter Horowitz, president of Rockaways' P More...
... When City Councilman James Sanders and three local organizations, the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce, the Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corporation and Margert Community Corporation, held a meeting a few years ago to announce that it was going to put out a "community map" that would allo More...
Remembering Bernie Blum Dear Editor, I was saddened to hear on Sunday that my good friend, Bernard Blum had died on Saturday. Rockaway has lost one of its greatest guardians. Unfortunately I heard of his death too late to attend his funeral. More...
Bernard Blum Environmentalist, Wave Columnist Bernard "Bernie" Blum, a longtime Arverne resident, environmentalist and Wave columnist, died September 30. He was 64. Blum was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His family moved to Arverne in 1956, w
Harry McGuirk, a longtime Rockaway resident and former reporter and assistant editor of The Wave, died September 22 at Connolly Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. More...
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