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Court Dismisses 2006 'Illegal Dunes' Lawsuit
A New York State Supreme Court Justice has thrown out a 2006 lawsuit brought by a group of Belle Harbor residents against the City's Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Environmental Protection charging that the two agencies illegally allowed dunes to be placed on their beachfront. More...
Busted For Borrowing Sis's Car, Selling It
By Howard Schwach

A Rockaway man who borrowed his sister's Mercedes Benz sedan and then sold it to a dealer for cash, was arrested last week on a myriad of charges related to the incident, police say. According to court papers supplied by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, Ralph Iorio, 47, moved into his sister's house on Beach 131 Street in September of 2008. More...

Woman And Dog Killed In Broad Channel MVA

While details were sketchy at press time, a woman and her pet dog walking along Cross Bay Boulevard on Thursday afternoon at about 5:10 p.m. were hit by an automobile. More...

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• article has image Controversy Follows FTW Surf Shop Owner
'Marketing Tool' Worries Many Locals
When Bobby Vaughn left his murder trial in California behind and came to New York City to change his life, he believed that he was leaving controversy behind. More...
• article has image PS 256 Parents, Staff Hit City With 500M Lawsuit
• article has image Motorcycle Torches Car In Dayton Towers Lot
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 Community
• article has image FDR Played Large Part In NC-4 Story
Visited Rockaway For First, Historic Flight
Most people remember Franklin D. Roosevelt, fondly called "FDR" by most Americans, as the president who safely brought us through the Great Depression and World War II. He is considered by many historians to be one of our greatest presidents. More...
• article has image Hospital Group Sponsors PHC
• article has image Prodigal Whale Returned To Rockaway Monday
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 Education/Schools
• School Scope
How I Learned To Live In A Banana Republic
Don't count this as rational. I'm a Terminator . . . and am in the midst of John Grisham's latest, The Associate. So don't mind my paranoia. If Arnold were to show up as a robot from the future, I wouldn't be shocked. And if we faced the devastation in some apocalyptic films, I would nod and say, "See, told you so! More...
• article has image Reading is Fundamental
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• article has image The Haunting In Connecticut' - Creep Show Dog
One of the most horrifying images in movie history is the surgically severed eyeball in the 1929 Luis Buñuel/ Salvador Dali surreal short, "An Andalusian Dog." When we see the cutting of corpses' eyelids in "The Haunting in Connecticut," it looks like we're heading down the same shocking creepshow road. More...
• article has image Wiggles At Nassau Coliseum
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 Columnists
• Beachcomber
When City Councilman James Sanders Jr. defied the will of the people and voted to extend term limits for both himself and the mayor, he said that he did it because he wanted a new technical school for Rockaway and More...
• article has image Historical Views of the Rockaways
• Broad Channel Bits
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 Sports
• article has image Villanova, St. John's Are PC Soccer Leaders At The Break
Peninsula Cup Soccer reached the midseason break with teams from St. John's and Villanova leading three divisions each with the Fighting Irish also claiming the top spot in the two remaining brackets. More...
• article has image Breezy Point Resident Named To State Hall Of Fame
• article has image Game On For Rockaway Ravens: Players, Coaches Registration
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Another Example Of DOE Spin
There should be no doubt in anybody's mind that the bottom line for the Department of Education should be the safety of every student attending its schools. More...
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 Letters
• 'World Class Boardwalk' Is Hyperbole
Dear Editor, In your editorial from April 3, you claim that if the stimulus package that the President says we are getting, is put to use in Rockaway, we will get, among a plethora of other amenities too numerous to mention, More...
• Don't Need An 'Inner Gangsta'
• A Clear Contrast Between Politicians
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 Obits
• Lula Belle Cunningham
Nursing Assistant
Lula Belle Cunningham, 71, a longtime Rockaway resident, died April 7. Cunningham was born on July 30, 1937, in Laurens County, South Carolina and worked as a Nursing Assistant. Her hobbies were fishing, crocheting, sewing and gardening. Her gardening skills helped beautify Hammels for many years. More...
• Harry Dobson
• Paul Fitzpatrick
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