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Bridge Lifts Slow Down Commute
Up And Down Twenty-Three Times Since 12/27
Residents who traverse the Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge may have noticed an increase in lifts of the central span of the bridge, something that was rare in the past, but has become more frequent during the past two weeks. More...
Hernandez Left Off Street Naming List
By Howard Schwach

On July 10, 2008, star football player and student Patrick Hernandez, 18, was walking home with his brother from his summer job working on the beach when he was shotgunned to death by another youth who later admitted that he was jealous of the victim’s success. Hernandez’s death stunned the community and started a movement to end gun violence in Far Rockaway. More...

SJEH Delivers New Year’s First Baby

The first baby born in Rockaway for the New Year, delivered at St. Johns Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, was Andre John Harley, who was born at 12:15 a.m. on New Years Day. More...

 Top Stories
• article has image Bellamy Decision Set For Next Week
On January 14, give or take a day or two, Kareem Bellamy will find out whether or not he has to go back to prison to serve the remainder of his 1995 conviction for the murder of James Abbott on Beach 47 Street on April 9, 1994. More...
• 2001 Dog Pack Assault Case Going To Trail
• Owner Offers Reward In Burning Of Mini-Mart
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 Community
• article has image Stop The Violence’ Is Theme Of Rapper’s Music
Rhyte Hitters Set New CD For 2010
True (he doesn’t like to give his real name because of his checkered past) has a dual purpose in life. Most of the time he earns a living by working the high steel somewhere in New York City, working in such diverse places as the Marine Parkway Bridge and a 24-story high rise in Long Island City. More...
• article has image Local Knights Bear Holiday Toys And Gifts
• article has image Beach 126 Street Penguins Take To Chilly Surf
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 Education/Schools
• article has image Waterside School Hosts Winter Art Festival
On Tuesday, December 22nd, the Waterside Childrens Studio School turned in to a celebration of student creativity at the first annual Winter Arts Festival. The gym turned into a replication of a Soho art gallery with student artwork and writing covering the gym walls. More...
• article has image PHC Benefits From St. Camillus Good Will
• article has image Honors Given To St. Camillus Students
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• article has image MovieScope
‘The Road’ – To Nowhere
Those upset by the intense negativity in author Cormac McCarthy’s bookturned movie, “No Country for Old Men,” may want to rethink it as a comedy after seeing the film of his Pulitzer Prize-winner, “The Road.” More...
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 Columnists
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TIGER WOODS – A TRAGIC TALE OF HUBRIS
In a discussion after services we tried to determine why sportsman Tiger Woods who had everything would do the things which he did. We came to the conclusion that it was a form of what the Greek writers referred to as “Hubris”. Monarchs, like Oedipus, felt that they were above the Gods. More...
• article has image School Scope
• It’s My Turn
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Quietly Moving Towards A Charter Revision Commission
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushed last year for a change in the Term Limits Law that would allow him to serve a third term even though the law limited city office holders to two terms, most people believed that billionaire Ron Lauder, the man who brokered the law in the first place, would fight tooth and nail to keep the two term limit. More...
• article has image EDITORIAL COMMENT
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 Letters
• Even The Wave Makes Mistakes
The Wave is a really good local newspaper, but it does occasionally make mistakes ... in this case it was in the obituary of my friend and colleague, Mace McCarthy, who died before Christmas in 2009. More...
• Sincerest Thanks
• Stop Gun Violence
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 Obits
• Edward G. McDonald
Statistician
Edward G. McDonald, a longtime Rockaway resident, died January 1. McDonald, a World War II veteran was born in Brooklyn, New York and worked as a statistician. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus and a fisherman. McDonald was preceded in death by his wife, Alice M. McDonald and sister, Grace Ensley. More...
• Viola McGuire
• Gertrude Victor
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