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May 16, 2008  RSS feed
Windy, Wet Storm Blows Through Rockaway
Winds gusted as high as 45mph on Monday and the rain poured down, as the tailend of a strong storm blew through Rockaway, causing the tide to come up nearly to the boardwalk all along the peninsula, as well as causing some minor flooding. Monday was also the day that Rockaway's new ferry took off for from Riis Landing for the first time, in what some riders say was a bumpy ride. Photo by Nicholas Briano. More...
CB 14 Approves 8-Story Buildings
Wants Environmental Study Of Area
By Nicholas Briano

Community Board 14 seconded the decision of its Land Use Committee on Tuesday evening, voting by a wide margin to approve the city's certified zoning plan that would safeguard most of the peninsula's low-density neighborhoods while allowing for eight-story buildings in the Beach 116 Street shopping area and along Rockaway Beach Boulevard between Beach 102 and Beach 105 More...

Ferry Tale Turns Grimm On Day One
By Howard Schwach

Rain pelted down and wicked winds nearly pulled a large tent off the ground at Riis Landing on Monday as several political and National Park Service officials inaugurated the longawaited commuter ferry from Rockaway to lower Manhattan. More...

 Top Stories
• article has image Bungalow Love Ends In Stabbing Death
A lovers' quarrel turned deadly this week when a Rockaway Beach woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend with a steak knife, police say. The victim, identified by police as Anthony Nicholas, 43, was allegedly stabbed several times in his chest by his longtime girlfriend Natasha Brown, 35, inside their bungalow home at 300 Beach 88 Street on Saturday afternoon, May 10. More...
• Clinton Backs Paterson On Mortgage Crisis
• article has image Clinton Praises Passage Of Flood Insurance Bill
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 Community
• article has image 'True' To His Word,Talking About Rap Or Ironworking
Drive across the Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge any day when it isn't raining, and you'll most likely take a glance at the ironworkers repairing the span that takes Rockaway motorists to Brooklyn and the Belt Parkway. More...
• article has image Community Beach Cleanup
• article has image Peninsula Hospital Center Auxiliary Receives Honors
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 Education/Schools
• article has image Wildlife Sanctuary Hosts 'Planting With Sprouts' Workshop
Julia Daudelin, a kindergarten teacher at P.S. 47, and Ranger Julia, of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, hosted a free program where young sprouts, ages 4 and up, explored plants parts from roots to buds with their families. In celebration of National Park Week and Volunteer Week, the workshop was held on Sunday, April 27, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. More...
• article has image Beth El Mission Day Care Visits The Circus
• article has image School Scope
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• article has image 'The Visitor' - Of Bongos And Borders
If actors Richard Jenkins and Dennis Quaid are up against each other at next year's Oscar ceremony, it will be ironic. They both play curmudgeon college professors: Dennis in "Smart People" and Jenkins in "The Visitor. More...
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 Business News
• article has image Rockaway Quicklube: A Quick Oil Change While You Wait
A complete 10 minute oil change and 16-point check costs less than $20. Rockaway Quicklube is tucked inside the Getty Station to help provide of all of your automotive needs. More...
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 Columnists
• Beachcomber
The ongoing television shoot at Arverne By The Sea is at once exciting and boring, if you can believe that. We watched the filmmakers shoot a scene for the new NBC-TV pilot "Kings" for about an hour. More...
• Broad Channel Bits
• article has image Dorothy Dunne
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 Sports
• article has image Rockaway Outdoors/Tales From The Wheel House
Fishing continued to build this week. Jamaica Bay represented with some noteworthy catches. Aboard the charter boat "Karen Ann" on Sunday, David Rios decked a hefty Weakfish 17 plus pounds on a live bunker. Stripers and Bluefish rounded out his catch. More...
• article has image Manchester United Nips Milan in Key PC Battle
• article has image Sensei Hodes Leads Karate To MSG
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 Editorial/Opinion
• The Right Decision For Rockaway
After a contentious public hearing that some observers say came close to rancor and violence, the members of Community Board 14 voted on Tuesday night to approve the city's new zoning plan for five of Rockaway's communities, including Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park. More...
• article has image EDITORIAL COMMENT
• It's My Turn
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 Letters
• Made By Non-Union Labor
Dear Editor, I read with great interest in last week's Wave and New York Times that Rockaway Congressman Anthony Weiner drives a government-financed Chevy Impala, while the peoplefinanced car of choice for Rockaway Congressman Gregory Meeks is a Toyota Lexus. More...
• Thanks Wave
• Change The A Line
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 Obits
• Milton P.Browne
Clergy
Milton Browne, a 36-year Far Rockaway resident, died May 4. He was 66. Browne was born in Nevis, West Indies on July 17, 1941. He was the pastor of the Arverne Church of God Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Frederica Browne; brother, Vernon; and sisters, Marilyn and Iola Myers. More...
• John H.Coburn
• Catherine (Betty) Goldberg
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