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December 26, 2008  RSS feed
Rockaway Precincts Show 'Uptick' In Index Crimes
Homicides Up Throughout Peninsula
There is good news and bad news on the Rockaway crime scene as we move from 2008 to 2009. As 2008 draws to a close, the overall crime statistics for the two Rockaway precincts show that the 100 Precinct in Rockaway Beach has seen a slight uptick in "Index Crimes, More...
Green Arraigned In Knifepoint Robbery
By Howard Schwach

Michael Green, the central figure in the fight to keep convicted murderer Kareem Bellamy from returning to prison, was arraigned on Thursday, December 18 on charges that he broke into a neighbor's apartment and held a knife to her throat, demanding money because, "It's the economy. More...

Wave Will Be Closed Thursday, January 1

The Wave office will be closed on Thursday, January 1, 2009 so that our employees can celebrate the holidays with family and friends. All deadlines for the newspaper during that week are as follows: All editorial material, including columns, is due by 5 p.m. on Monday. Display advertisements are also due on Monday at 5 p.m. Classified advertising is due by Tuesday at 5 p.m. More...

 Top Stories
• Rockaway Native Pleads Guilty To Scaling Building
Clarke Gets One Day Of Community Service
A Bayswater native who scaled the side of the New York Times Building in Manhattan over the summer to publicize the fight against malaria pled guilty this week to one count of reckless endangerment. When Rey Clarke, Jr. More...
• Rite-Aid Victim Says Company Broke Promise
• Rockaway Thug Convicted, Second Gets Mistrial
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 Community
• article has image Rockaway Not A Hotbed Of New Year's Eve Revelry
But The Evening Has A History All It's Own
New Year's Eve is December 31 of every year. It is celebrated in countries that use the Gregorian calendar with the United States, Australia, British Isles, North and South America, Europe, Scandinavia and (the former) Soviet Union as the main regions in the world that welcome in a new year. More...
• Gateway Bike And Boathouse Terminated
• article has image Beachside Bungalow Preservation Association Makes Changes
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 Education/Schools
• article has image PS 47 Students Become Asthma Experts
Students at PS 47 have recently completed The American Lung Association's Open Airway For School program, an asthma management program for schoolchildren. Under the direction of school nurse Loretta Stone, the students became Asthma Experts in managing their asthma attacks. Pictured with Stone are (l-r) Brandon Dalto, Grace Groves, Skyla Hutchins and Chris Gallagher. More...
• article has image Celebrating Christmas With The Chess Club
• article has image Local Students Collect Food For City Harvest
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• article has image MovieScope
'The Boy In The Striped Pajamas' - Children Of The Holocaust -
Channel 13 recently showed a documentary called, "Inheritance," about the real-life daughter of Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi concentration camp commandant. Now in her 60's, she was born shortly after her father's execution and only discovered his monstrous legacy when she saw him portrayed in the film, "Schindler's List. More...
• Fort Tilden Highlights
• kidsmART corner
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 Columnists
• Beachcomber
A local man called us this week to say that he had given up his two long-held tickets to the New York Ranger games at Madison Square Garden and instead bought four season tickets to watch the Brooklyn Aces play hockey at the More...
• Eye On Physical Therapy
• The Progressive
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 Sports
• article has image Kids Korner: Looking At Sports
This is the first in a series of columns to be written by Rockaway students about their favorite sports and sports teams. Ryan Schwach, the grandson of Wave editor Howard Schwach, is the first one up. More...
• St. Camillus/St. Virgilius CYO Triumphant
• SFDS Christmas Tourney Concludes Saturday
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Character And Experience, Not Family Ties
The Kennedy publicity machine has geared up to make Caroline Kennedy our next senator. All the Kennedy friends made the rounds of the Sunday television news shows to push her candidacy and she even went to Buffalo, in the snowy northern part of the state to campaign for the job. More...
• article has image EDITORIAL COMMENT
• article has image 2008 In Political Cartoons
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 Letters
• Father Cunningham Gives Thanks
Dear Editor, Each year during the holiday season I am amazed at the tremendous generosity of the people of Rockaway. At Thanksgiving this year the Parish of St. Mary Star of the Sea and St. Gertrude was able to assist hundreds of families and individuals thanks to the support we receive from so many in our community. More...
• Don't Blame Them, Blame Yourself
• More On Dayton Beach Park
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 Obits
• Warren Edward Boyce
Train Operator
Warren Boyce, a longtime Rockaway resident, died December 12. Boyce was born in Brooklyn on July 6, 1945. He was a train operator with New York City Transit. More...
• Alexander Ellerbee
• Peggie Gee
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