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Columnists March 23, 2007
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Historical Views of the Rockaways
Hey! Night Game Baseball In Arverne, 1934. Who Won The Game???
From The Rockaway Museum by Emil Lucev, Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke
      The old days in the Rockaways contained many local baseball teams. Far Rockaway had the "Domestics" who played on their home field north of Everdell Avenue in the 1880s. In later years Arverne, Hammels and Rockaway Park formed athletic associations- and all played each other and visiting teams on t...
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From The Artists Studio
Rockaway Artists Alliance I Write, Therefore I POD
Commentary by Susan Hartenstein RAA contact info:
      Phone: 718 474-0861; Fax: 718 474-4373; e-mail: rockart116@aol.com ; website: www.rockawayartistsalliance .org Photography: Process and Print - Exhibition on view @ sTudio 6 Gallery in RoCA, Fort Tilden: Saturday, March 10-Sunday, April 1. Admission is free. Ga...
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Dorothy Dunne

      News Events/Travel Editor/Host + WNYX - TV Morning News + 12:00 noon on UHF Chs. 35 & 26 Monday - Friday Big Jack In Memoriam The month of March jogs my memory back to my beloved cousin, Jack Crowley, whose birthday was March 11.
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Broad Channel Bits
With Spring Here, Many Local Events
Commentary By Liz Guarino
      Spring had its official first day a couple of days ago. By the time you read this, the dirty white, cold, hard material that was everywhere on the ground last Saturday will have melted. Some folks who thought Spring had arrived in a warm temperature sense were sure surprised when the whit...
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Notes On Consumer Affairs
By Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer
      Consumer scam artists employ trickery, deception, and other unscrupulous tactics in their efforts to separate consumers from their hard-earned dollars. Fraudsters intent on taking your money are constantly inventing new schemes, and adding new spins to classic scams.
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Notes from the High C's
Rockaway Music and Arts Council
Commentary by Sharon Gabriel
      Well, being the columnist for the RMAC you would have thought I would have written about our upcoming Literary Festival a long time ago. So, as an excuse, I was never known as speedy. Having lived three blocks from the old PS 44, I still came late to school and ended up in the principal's...
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MovieScope
Review By Robert Snyder
      'Black Snake Moan' - Southern Discomfort What's with actor Samuel L. Jackson and snakes? Last year, he starred in the much Internet-hyped "Snakes on a Plane." Now, he's smoldering on the silver screen in "Black Snake Moan.
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Looking Backward
What The Wave Said
      20 Years Ago... Brooklyn and Manhattan-bound C and A Train riders enjoyed looking out at Linden Boulevard late last week after rerouting around a derailment at the Hudson Street station made it necessary to skip (not even enter) the Grand Avenue station on t...
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It's My Turn
By Ruth Altman
      Ruth Altman was a long-time resident of Beach 27 Street. She attended PS 106 in Edgemere and graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1957. Most of her career was spent as a civilian employee of the United States Army, beginning at the Nike Missile site in Fort Tilden on the western end o...
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On The Beach
Commentary By Beverly Baxter Eric Ulrich Makes It Right!
      "A young bull elephant has emerged from the herd to lock tusks with the older guard," states Tom Lynch, President of the Rockaway Republicans, when describing Eric Ulrich, the twenty-two year old political prodigy who gained much recognition two years ago when he mounted a formidable camp...
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The Progressive
      Commentary By John Paul Culotta Inclusive Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surprisingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happy as possible" Socrates according to Plato
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Simon says...
      Commentary From the Desk of Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23 rd A.D. Part B Neponsit Property Coming To Resolution The weather has just been marvelous. It was a great heat wave. All of a sudden snow again. The snow caused the bus company to cancel our buses on ...
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School Scope
Commentary By Norman Scott
      I've been writing about Christopher Cerf, Joel Klein's Deputy Chancellor For Organizational Strategy, Human Capital, and External Affairs. External Affairs? Does the DOE have a foreign policy? Or are their policies just foreign?
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