Staff members and parents arriving at PS 225 in Rockaway Beach on Monday morning were greeted with a racial screed that is being investigated by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Unit, sources say. Those arriving early on November 5 found hundreds of small flyers scattered around the building's perimeter an... More...
For more than two years, Community Board 14 has called on the City Council to review the Parks Department's "flawed" hiring process that puts lifeguards on Rockaway beaches each summer and that has, for the past few years, left many of those beaches closed on hot, summer weekends. More...
Far Rockaway High School defensive back Patrick Hernandez (2) attempts to stop Beach Channel High School running back Turran Rhodes (21) in last week's gridiron game for peninsula bragging rights. More...
A Rockaway resident was charged with assault last week after he allegedly stabbed his friend in the stomach, police said. James Poole, 25, took a knife and sliced into the 32-year-old victim's abdomen, causing a punctured intestine that required 24 stitches, according to police. More...
Not many old photographs printed from glass plate negatives have survived to the present day. On occasion, a photo of the old 19th century days in the Rockaways surfaces…in the form of a postcard. I have stated that on postcards of yore, the postmark date is not the date or year the pictur... More...
Turran Rhodes arrived on the Beach Channel football team patiently waiting for his opportunity. The sophomore was not on the top of the runningback depth chart to begin the season but he felt his time would come sooner or later. More...
Dear Editor, Once again, the shareholders of Dayton Beach Park #1 Corp. have been subjected to the travesty of an insult of an election! How low will the Board majority sink, to preserve their power? It began with the accidental (? More...
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Evelyn Marie Brown, a longtime Rockaway resident, died October 27. She was 60. Brown was born on October 22, 1940 in Bessimer, Alabama. She worked as a nurse at Creedmoor Hospital until she retired in May. She was preceded in death her mother, Ronia; brothers, Robert, Willie James, and Bobby Lou... More...
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