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December 12, 2008  RSS feed
Residents Scream 'NO' To CBB Tolls
Aday after elected officials and civic activists from Rockaway and Broad Channel held a rally at the toll plaza at the northern end of the Cross Bay Bridge with Borough President Helen Marshall, more than 25 residents attended an MTA board meeting to testify that they are opposed to once again charging local residents to cross the bridge to and from Rockaway. More...
Bellamy To Remain Home For The Holidays
By Howard Schwach

Kareem Bellamy, the Rockaway man convicted of murder 14 years ago and then released by a Queens judge earlier this year, will spend the holidays at home with his mother, thanks to an adjournment of a hearing that may well put him back in prison, which set his next court date for January 5. More...

PS 225 To Close, Will Become Two New Schools
By Howard Schwach

Public School 225, a long-troubled school in Rockaway Park, will be closed by the Department of Education in June, to morph eventually into two separate schools - a pre-k to fifth grade organization and a middle school organization, each with its own administration, curriculum and funding. More...

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• article has image Put Them In, Then Wipe Them Out
Unnecessary Curb Cuts Come And Go
In May of this year, the city's Department of Transportation put in curb cuts on streets running from Rockaway Beach Boulevard to the boardwalk between Beach 35 Street and Beach 57 Street. At the time, the DOT was excoriated because that area is deserted, part of the Arverne East Renewal Area, and many of the streets where the curb cuts were constructed at great cost, no longer exist. More...
• article has image NAACP: CVS Treats Minorities Unfairly
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 Community
• article has image Lodico Delivers Another Novel From 'Beyond The Stars'
"Once we have immersed ourselves in these fantasies of what might have been, the danger is that we may one day decide to remain there for a while and eventually become trapped within the power of its spell, More...
• article has image MGP Meeting At PS 225 Set For December 18
• article has image Harbor Seal Beaches On Rockaway Peninsula
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 Education/Schools
• article has image Parents And Teachers: Make Rockaway Freeway Safe
Each morning and afternoon, more than one-third of the Rockaway Park Middle/High School Scholars' Academy students, along with hundreds more from Beach Channel High School, located right across the once accident prone Rockaway Freeway, traverse the street to get to and from school. More...
• article has image Students Learn Lesson Of Volunteerism
• article has image Bishop Kearney Students Celebrates Others
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• kidsmART corner
Looking for a great holiday gift for your budding artist? In 2009, RAA will begin offering Painting and Photography classes for children ages 10-12. The classes will be held in T-149 (the kidsmART building) in Fort Tilden, Mondays, 4:30 - 6 p.m. for eight weeks. More...
• Fort Tilden Highlights
• article has image MovieScope
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 Columnists
• Beachcomber
We have received a lot of criticism for not running a story about Barak Obama's election win on the front page. The Wave is, and will always remain, a hyper-local paper. There is a joke that it if an event doesn't happen in Rockaway or Broad Channel, we don't want to know about it unless it directly impacts our residents. That is more truth than joke. More...
• The Style Insider
• From The Artists Studio
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 Sports
• article has image Aces Fly High On Ice And Name New Owner
The Brooklyn Aces continue to scald their Eastern Professional Hockey opponents in their inaugural campaign. The Aces bring a seven game winning streak into tonight's game against the Hudson Valley Bears at 7:30 p.m. at the Aviator Arena at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. More...
• Learn To Play Basketball
• Boys Seahorses Break Year Long Losing Streak: Far Rock Girls Fall To Hawks
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Keep Senior Centers Open And Running
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Department for the Aging have their way, approximately 85 senior centers will soon close down and many more will be forced to restructure their programs that now serve the needs of seniors. More...
• article has image EDITORIAL COMMENT
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 Letters
• Save The Cross Bay Bridge Rebate
Dear Editor, There is a way to save the rebate on the Cross Bay Bridge. If the governor would support sport betting, football, baseball, hockey and basketball, the city and state will make more than the $3.6 million it costs now for the rebate. More...
• Flagpole Vandals
• Clean Up Beach 116 St
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 Obits
• Thomas Anthony Bancroft
Construction Worker
Thomas Bancroft, a lifelong Rockaway resident, died December 7. Bancroft was born in Far Rockaway. He was a construction worker. He is survived by his father, Luis Quinones; mother, Nancy Bancroft Henderson; sons, Anthony and Michael Bancroft; daughter Nancy Bancroft; and sister, Corrina Henderson. More...
• Inga L. Childs
• Charles J. Laine
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