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Cut Cables Silence Local Phones
Can You Hear Me Now,’ Question Of The Week
By Howard Schwach
A construction crew digging new gas pipes for Arverne By The Sea struck and cut two major feeder cables coming from the Telephone Building on Beach 81 Street, knocking out phone service throughout the west end of the peninsula on Thursday, February 2. At press time, a number of phone customers still More...
Jealous Ex Triggers His Own Shooting
By Brian Magoolaghan

New details have emerged in Monday’s shooting in Far Rockaway in which one man was killed and another was wounded when their fight for a woman’s affection ended in gunfire and bloodshed. More...

Driver As ‘Wrecked’ As His Car: Cops

A Brooklyn man was intoxicated last Friday night when he lost control of his 1998 Nissan Altima and smashed into a tree on Cross Bay Boulevard in Broad Channel, police said. Daniel R. Roman, 55, was placed under arrest after he was extracted from his vehicle at about 7:30 p.m. He was taken by EMS am... More...

 Community
•Air Gun Shootings Injure Two In Edgemere
Two recent air gun shootings in Edgemere have left a teenager and a Chinese food delivery man with head injuries, police said. More...
•Valentine’s Day Greetings For Vets
•Pheffer Named To Horse Racing Commission
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 Columnists
•Broad Channel Bits
Cold weather found us again! For winter, though, it really has not been bad. Other areas of our country have had mudslides, tornadoes, fires, hurricanes. It’s good that we don’t have to think about those things happening here; it’s hard enough to think about high tide and torrential rains coinciding More...
•Councilman Addabbo Explores Run For State Senate
•Cops Sweep Dealers From Redfern, Dix McBride
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 Sports
•SFDS Novice, Bantam Girls Grab CYO Playoff Wins
The Novice and Bantam girls advanced to the Diocesan quarterfinals with victories this past weekend. Taylor Butigan and Erin Blum combined for their usual inside/outside scoring, while Regina Paskoff, Lynn Rayder, and Athena McDonald-Smith complemented the duo with their defense and rebounding as th More...
•Lady Hornets Free Tryouts/Clinic
•Lady Dolphins Can’t Wake Up In Cardozo Blowout
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 Editorial/Opinion
•Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time
If you believe that the mayor’s control of the school system is a big success, that more students are passing standardized tests and being promoted to the next grade on merit, think again. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you can fool some of the people all of the time. Witness the fact that the State Boa More...
•Editorial Comment
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 Letters
•Letters
What Can’t The President Do? To the editor,
Once again, we are blessed with the bi-weekly simplicities and heart-felt pleadings from Stu Mirsky. Okay, so he really, really likes George W. Bush. I’m convinced. Yet, as one  vassal said of his friend, the truly loyal subject, ‘Wouldest that the king were ever so deserving of such devotion.’ More...
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 Calendar
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EBRUARY 2006
Broad Channel Bits Free Tax Counseling For Seniors, Queens Library (CBB), Wednesdays, 2/1 to 4/12, 1 to 5 p.m. More...
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 Obits
•Christine Louise Francis Hospital Attendant
Christine Louise Francis, a longtime Rockaway resident, died January 28. She was 96. Francis, a hospital attendant, was born on May 20, 1909 in St. Ann, Jamaica, West Indies. She is survived by her daughters, Ruby and Hermine; three sons, Lambert, Wins
Lorenzo R. Graham, a longtime Rockaway resident, died January 30. He was 59. More...
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