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Brothers Busted In ATM Grab
Two Rockaway Park brothers were arrested recently in connection with the theft of an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) in the past month, one for stealing the machine and the other for threatening workers with burning down their store if they did not drop charges for the theft, police say. More...
Madelaine Workers Wait Word

More than 100 Haitian workers crowded into the employee’s lunchroom at Rockaway’s Madelaine Chocolate Novelties Company on Friday afternoon to hear company officials and local politicians outline a plan to help them find the loved ones who are injured or missing in the wake of the massive earthquake that hit the beleaguered island last week. More...

Question Smith’s Ties To Local Charter School
By Howard Schwach

State Senate President Malcolm Smith, who represents Rockaway in that body, says that he has divested himself from the local charter school he founded in 2004. More...

 Top Stories
• article has image Emergency Medical Service Big Axes Volunteer Ambulances
“Volunteer ambulances are no longer needed,” an unnamed high-ranking Emergency Medical Service chief recently told his subordinates in an email, published reports say. The e-mail memo, issued last month, effectively boots 35 community-run ambulance corps from the EMS computer system, cutting them off from vital information that could save lives, experts say. More...
• article has image St. John's Teen Busted On Assault Charge
• article has image Brown Will Appeal Bellamy Decision
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 Community
• article has image Locals Come Together For Haiti Earthquake Relief
Relief Groups, Churches To Aid Victims
In the wake of the tragedy in Haiti, Councilman James Sanders Jr. and several civic organizations have announced plans to help residents in the 31st Council District donate needed items for survivors of the January 12 earthquake. More...
• article has image Genuine Rockaway Hero Dies at 99
• Locals Help Haiti Earthquake Victims
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• Lisa Lampanelli At Westbury 2/5
Lisa Lampanelli, a no-holds-barred insult comic, performs at the Theatre at Westbury on Friday, February 5 at 8 p.m. Dubbed by the New York Times as Comedy’s “Lovable Queen of Mean,” Grammy-nominated Lisa Lampanelli has been hailed as a cross between Don Rickles, Archie Bunker, and a vial of estrogen. More...
• West, Bruce and Laing To Reunite At Westbury
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 Columnists
• Beachcomber
The Wave was honored in the Congressional Record on November 17. Congressman Anthony Weiner entered remarks into the record congratulating this paper for being named the Best Community Newspaper in New York City by the Village Voice. “The Wave has been serving the many communities in Rockaway for 116 years,” he said. More...
• The Rockaway Beat
• article has image Notes On Consumer Affairs
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 Milestones
• article has image Art And Modeling At The Prep
The Drawing course at St. Edmund Prep High School, taught by Phil Fama, teaches different art techniques and methods. It also uses student volunteers to be models for the art students. Models start with a three minute warm-up pose, followed by quick preview pose during which the students decide composition. Art students choose their view depending upon the angle they prefer. More...
• article has image Jill Weber Honored At Dinner Dance
• article has image Rockaway Kid Gets Xavier HS Scholarship
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 Sports
• article has image Fontbonne Hall Races Past Stella Maris
It’s no secret by now that Stella Maris High School has announced they will close their doors this summer. That issue hasn’t affected the varsity girls’ basketball team according to coach Maureen Gigliello. The concern that displeased her on Tuesday afternoon was her team’s inconsistency on the floor, which they displayed against Fontbonne Hall Academy. More...
• article has image High School Roundup: Dolphins Improve Win Streak
• article has image Pro Spotlight: Surging Jets One Win From Super Appearance
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Rockaway Needs A Comprehensive High School
Next Tuesday, the Department of Education’s Educational Priorities Panel will meet to vote on whether a number of city schools will be phased out and closed. Among those schools is Beach Channel High School, the only comprehensive high school on the peninsula since the closing of Far Rockaway High School. More...
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 Letters
• Seniors left Out in the Cold
Dear Editor, It was a freezing day Monday, January 4, about 20 degrees; and seniors weathered the frost to go to their three times weekly SENIORS IN SHAPE program at the Aviator Sports Center in Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn. They had been going in droves for three years since the Aviator opened in 2007. More...
• Good For Weiner
• Closing of Jamaica High School
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 Obits
• Melville Cuban
Hero Rockaway Lifeguard
Melville Cuban died December 6 in Delray Beach, Florida. He was 99 years old. Cuban, who was born on August 8, 1910, was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was a Rockaway Beach lifeguard for 11 summers, starting in 1928, working most often at the eastern end of the peninsula. More...
• Carlos Feliciano
• Josephine Francis
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