Detectives from the 101 Precinct in Far Rockaway are looking for two men who held up a Far Rockaway store at gunpoint on December 22. According to police, two men entered the Discount Store at 10-79 Beach 21 Street at about 8 p.m. The two acted as customers, picking up merchandise and eventually moving to the checkout counter. As the clerk tallied the cost, however, one of the men pulled a silver handgun and yelled, "Nobody move." The gunman then came around the counter and took cash and an iPhone from the clerk's pocket. The two men then fled southbound on Beach 21 Street with $20 from the clerk and two bags of merchandise. The gunman is described as 17-20 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with hair on his chin and wearing short braids. His accomplice is described as 17-20 years old, wearing a black flight jacket and a black knit cap. Anyone with information is urged to call the 101 Squad at 718-868-3428 or Crimestoppers at 1-800- 577-TIPS. More...

Bob Trim, now 60 years old, remembers his first foray into the artistic world, even though it was more than 50 years ago. "I painted the furniture in our home with water paints," he says. "My mother was not too happy, and she almost ended my artistic career right there. More...

Employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) visited the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, prior to the holidays, and discussed its wildlife management program with an Environmentor After- School class of Kappa VI students. More...

While the war in the film, "Doubt," is not about religion, per se, it does take place in a Catholic school and it is between a nun and a priest. What's at stake is the wellbeing of a sensitive, bullied boy. Religious dogma flies around like feathers in a pillow fight, yet the boy, Donald Miller (Joseph Foster III), is unaware of it. More...

Stacy A. Sand, CPA, PC and Sand Tax and Accounting are in their second year in Rockaway. Located at 438 Beach 129 Street above the bagel store, they are a welcome addition to the block. More...

If all seven candidates for the City Council seat vacated by State Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. show up for the candidate forum to be hosted on February 9 by The Wave at West End Temple, More...

Peyton Mullings' choice of going to Marcy Avenue Campus, an alternative public school in Brooklyn, never would have happened without some timely guidance. Mullings pondered going to prep school last June after falling four classes short of earning his high school diploma at Grady High School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. More...

Every once in a while, a member of the City Council comes up with a good idea, and a proposal worthy of mandating citywide compliance. Recently, Queens Councilman Eric Gioia called on School Chancellor Joel Klein to make community service a requirement for high school graduation. We like the idea. What could teens do? More...

Dear Editor, Just when you thought the political season was over, Mayor Bloomberg announced the Special Election on February 24, 2009 to fill the vacancy in the 32nd City Council that was Senator Joseph Addabbo's. More...

Carlo Belloni, a longtime Rockaway resident, died December 27, 2008. Belloni, a nurse's aide, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 16, 1944. He is survived by his children, Jeffery, Claude, Carrol, Cathleen, Daphnee and Cindy; Lisa Belloni; motherin law, Lea Pailant; sister-in-law, Gladys Rameau; Violane Mehu, Marie and Jovanna Pailant. More...