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Sparked By Girlfriend's Drugs, Prostitution, Officials Say By Howard Schwach Fire marshals have nabbed the local man who they say set a six-alarm blaze that devastated a Neilson Street apartment building and left scores of residents scrambling for somewhere to stay, fire department officials say. More ... Legislature, Governor Agree On Worker's Comp Changes Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer has announced that the Legislature and Governor Spitzer have reached an agreement to reform New York State's workers' compensation system - a move that increases future benefits for injured workers and reduces costs for employers between 10 and 15 percent. More ...
By Howard Schwach Keyspan Energy and the state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will soon begin a comprehensive study of an industrial site in Far Rockaway that was once used as a Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP), which, company officials say, may have left a toxic mix of chemicals and carcinogen... More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor In an attempt to turn a vacant piece of city land nearby the boardwalk in Far Rockaway into a park, members of the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance went before Community Board 14's Parks Committee on March 1 to explain their plan and to get the backing of the board. More ... Addabbo Cosponsors Yom Ha'Shoah Bill City Council Member Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. has announced that he has cosponsored a Resolution in the Council commemorating Yom Ha'Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15, 2007. Six million Jews and scores of other innocent people throughout Europe were slaughtered by the Nazis duri... More ...
Will Visit Nation's Capitol Raymond Henry, a student at PS 114 in Belle Harbor, has been accepted for the People to People World Leadership Forum. Henry will join a select group of students in Washington, D.C. from September 17-23 to earn credits while studying leadership and exploring some of America's most prominent... More ... Peninsula Hospital Introduces New Surgical Technique Out-Of-Towner's Drawn To Rockaway Hospital Nick H. Gabriel, D.O. F.A.C.O.S, Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Peninsula Hospital Center, recently performed the first two Gastric Pacemaker insertions at the Hospital Center. Dr. Gabriel joined the staff of the Hospital Center in March of 2005. In April, 2006 Dr. More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Contributing Editor The promise of higher education is about to become a reality in Rockaway as the City University of New York begins a program that eventually will see the old courthouse on Beach 90 Street and Beach Channel Drive transformed into a CUNY facility. More ...
By Miriam Rosenberg Forty-two years to the date after Malcolm X was assassinated, a crowd of 400 people filled City Hall for a gospel concert celebrating Black History Month. Councilman James Sanders Jr hosted the 4th Annual Salute to Gospel, held on February 21. More ...
The Lawrence Hotel, a perennial eyesore on Beach 116 Street, has been wrapped up tighter than a Christmas present by the Department of Buildings to keep it from falling into the shopping street. On December 1 of last year, pieces of the pigeon-filled, abandoned welfare hotel began falling int... More ...
The children of Little Tots Red Wagon Preschool in Breezy Point recently took care of fertilized eggs in the hopes they would hatch. They kept the eggs warm and turned the eggs three times a day for eight days, and last month 12 healthy baby chicks were hatched. The chicks returned to a farm ... More ...
Love stopped the Rockaway St. Patrick's Day Parade this past Saturday. Firefighter William Smith (Ladder 154 of the Far Rockaway "Big House"), marching with his Battalion, stopped and broke rank in front of St. Camillus Church. He knelt in front of Jillian Ruffino and asked her to spend the r... More ...
Lawrence Woodmere Academy celebrated Mardi Gras, known as Carnevale in Spanish and Italian, and Fat Tuesday in Louisiana, during late February. The Upper School French and Italian Clubs researched the traditions of masquerade balls, crowns of the day, and balloon displays. They created an a... More ...
On one of the most beautiful parade days in recent memory, hundreds of marchers stepped off on Saturday, March 3 from Beach 129 Street and Newport Avenue for this year's annual Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade as thousand more watched from the sidelines and cheered. More ...
A nd the winners are…James Killian and Mary Powers. On Sunday February 18 the Rockaway Artists Alliance announced the results of the drawing held to coincide with their latest exhibition Where Flowers Bloom In Winter . Over 300 people had attended the January 21 opening recept... More ...
Belinda Rosen, a Belle Harbor resident, received a City Council Citation from Councilman Leroy Comrie at an awards ceremony held inside City Hall on February 28. Rosen was the winner of the essay contest "Why The 'N' Word Should Never Be Used," which was sponsored by Councilman Comrie. More ...
Mother nature smiled on the Rockaways last Saturday, and the Green Apple Corps & Rockaway Waterfront Alliance (RWA) took advantage of the great weather to prepare for Earth Day Rockaway. RWA reached out to Queens Green Apple Corps to get help cleaning the park land area between Beach 26... More ...
Twenty seven artists share not only their art but the experience of photography as presented in the Rockaway Artists Alliance's latest exhibit "Photography: Process and Print" in the sTudio 6 gallery of the Rockaway Center for the Arts (RoCA) in Ft. Tilden. More ...
Congregation Derech Emunoh celebrated Purim at their synagogue, located on Beach 66 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard. They held evening Purim services and read from the Book of Esther (Megilath Esther). Ahot buffet followed, with many traditional Purim treats such as hamantashen in an assortme... More ...
Locals Perform In 'A Great Night For The Irish' Local championship Irish Step dancers Laura Gilmartin, Mary Ann Opperman and Julie Opperman put on a sensational performance at Carnegie Hall in a production of "A Great Night for the Irish" on Friday, February 23. More ...
Joseph and Lynn Artese of Rockaway Park announce the arrival of their daughter, Emily Elizabeth Artese, born on Sunday, February 18, 2007 weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces and measuring 20.5 inches. Emily was welcomed by her proud grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. More ...
Audrey and Israel Weinstock will be the guests of honor at the annual Ohab Zedek Dinner, which will be held on Friday night, Sabbath eve on March 23 in the synagogue ballroom. More ...
Rafael Luis Machuca and Jennifer Linn Steward were married on January 13, 2007 at St. Mary's Chapel in Charlotte, North Carolina. Machuca is the son of Betty Ann McLoughlin of Rockaway Park and Santiago Machuca of Woodhaven. More ... |
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