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Body Of Missing Man Recovered
The body of a Brooklyn man who was swimming on Monday evening at Riis Park, hours after the lifeguards went off duty, and was lost in the raging surf, was recovered near the same beach on Wednesday morning. Anthony Bolden, 21, was swimming at the closed beach at about 8:20 p.m. More...
Dead In The Water! Water-Related Deaths Rock Peninsula From One End To The Other
Rip Current Takes Life Of Bronx Teen
By Howard Schwach

A 19-year-old Bronx man, who was reportedly swimming with his girlfriend on an unprotected beach at Beach 27 Street, lost his life on Saturday when the pair was pulled out to sea by a raging rip current. Lifeguards reportedly spotted a young woman floundering in the surf just after 3 p.m. on August 1, and quickly pulled her from the waves, officials say. More...

Suffers Attack Fighting Riptide

A Brooklyn man, who onlookers say suffered a heart attack fighting the surf to get back to shore, was declared dead at a Breezy Point beach on Monday afternoon. Police say that Michael Mathleson, 56, complained to his swimming companions that he was having chest pains as he tried to return to the Breezy Point Surf Club at about 3:46 p.m. on August 3. More...

 Top Stories
• article has image City Suspends Headphone-Wearing Lifeguard
The city's Department of Parks and Recreation has suspended a veteran lifeguard who was caught by a New York Post photographer wearing headphones and listening to music on his chair at Beach 108 Street in Rockaway Park. More...
• article has image Detective Pulls Woman From Riis Park Surf
• Aqueduct Bids In Closed Selection Process
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 Community
• article has image Snakehead' Recalls One Of Rockaway's Most Infamous Episodes
New Book Details Voyage Of The 'Golden Venture' A Wave Review
I remember it well. At about 3:30 a.m. on June 6, 1993, I got a call from a police source telling me to get out of bed and get to the beach near Fort Tilden, where hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants were running free after jumping from a tramp steamer into the ocean near Breezy Point. More...
• St. John's Hosts Blood Drive
• article has image Rain-Soaked Runners Rebound In Graybeards Family Run
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 Education/Schools
• College Of New Rochelle Shuts Down Rockaway Operation
Low Enrollment Cited As Cause
After six years and 239 students the College of New Rochelle (School of New Resources) is shutting down its operations in the Rockaway area. Citing low enrollment as the cause for ending classes in Rockaway, the Dean of the School of New Resources told The Wave that the numbers were constantly working against them. More...
• article has image Educating Youth On Water Safety
• article has image Students Learn About Falcons At JFK Airport
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• article has image Fornatale To Visit Rockaway Artists Alliance
Pete Fornatale, author and New York City disc jockey, will be visiting the Rockaway Artists Alliance on Thursday, August 27 at 7 p.m. in sTudio 7 Gallery (building T7), Fort Tilden to give a power point presentation about his new book, "Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock. More...
• article has image MovieScope
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 Columnists
• article has image Point of View
THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR
An intriguing thought appeared in a renowned literary magazine. "Gold," it said, "is an indestructible metal. The same few ounces now in a ring or ornament may have been used and reused, melted, remelted and molded into different shapes throughout the ages. More...
• article has image Notes On Consumer Affairs
• article has image Historical Views of the Rockaways
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 Milestones
• article has image Peggy And George Married 50 Years
Peggy and George Murphy of Belle Harbor celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with their family and friends at the home of their daughter and sonin law, Katie and Greg Atwood, on July 25. The Murphy's were married on this day in 1959 at the church of St. Joan of Arc in Jackson Heights, Queens. More...
• article has image Zimmerman Graduates From Basic Military Training
• article has image Nicholas Turns 4
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 Sports
• Coastal Wins Championship Thriller At SFDS Classic
An overflow crowd of nearly 1,000 spectators witnessed a tremendous championship game in the Boys High School Division at the St. Francis Summer Classic on Wednesday night. Bobby Bruns scored 10 points as the Graybeards took a 13-10 lead after one quarter. More...
• Skies Clear To Kick Off Seventh Annual Graybeards Run
• article has image Par Tee Golf News: Ach Scores Hole-In-One!
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Beware Of Dishonest Debt Collectors
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is on a mission. Just two weeks ago, he sued 35 law firms and two debt collecting firms that operate in the state in order to throw out more than 100,000 default judgments improperly obtained against state citizens. Here's the way the scam works. More...
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 Letters
• Appreciating Lifeguards
Dear Editor, In NYC we have appreciation days and parades for just about every group known to man. Has there ever been a Lifeguard Appreciation Day or parade? Or even a thank you from a drowning victim? The only time there is ever public acknowledgment that Rockaway lifeguards even exist is when something goes drastically wrong, and then it is the lifeguard's fault. More...
• Health Programs Hinder Americans
• Defending Illegal Immigrants
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 Obits
• Dorothy Beverly Cooper`
Radiologist
Dorothy Beverly Cooper, 70, a longtime Rockaway resident, died July 22. Cooper was born on February 25, 1939 in Manhattan and worked as a radiologist. She was baptized at City Tabernacle, where she served as a member. More...
• Catherine Nies Gaeta
• Mary C. McDonald
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