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Guilty Statutory Rape Plea For Music Teacher
Had Ongoing Affair With 15-Year-Old Student
Sentencing on a statutory rape plea for a Rockaway music teacher was held in abeyance on Monday by a Queens Supreme Court judge, pending his completion of a Florida program for sex offenders, a spokesperson for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown told The Wave. More...
Two Bodies Found On Beach
By Howard Schwach

Police officers from the 100 Precinct responding to a call of a nude man unconscious on the beach, found not only that man, but another under the nearby boardwalk. According to police sources, a passerby called the 911 emergency system at about 5:25 a.m. on Monday, saying that there was an unconscious nude male lying on the beach near the shoreline. More...

Mom Arrested For Scalding Son

A Rockaway Park mother has been arrested and charged with severely burning her toddler son by deliberately immersing him in scalding hot water, allegedly for having soiled himself, according to a report by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. Brown identified the defendant as Regina Cooper, 30, of 112-34 Rockaway Beach Boulevard. More...

 Top Stories
• article has image PEP ‘Mayoral Puppets’ Vote To Close BCHS, 18 Others
With all of the mayor’s appointees voting in lockstep, the Panel for Educational Policy voted 9-4 to close 19 schools, including Beach Channel High School, at a raucous meeting that began early on Tuesday evening and ended at 3 a.m. on Wednesday morning. More...
• article has image Bellamy Defense Happy With Judge’s Decision
• Rockaway Dollar Vans Underinsured
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 Community
• article has image 41st Street Community Center Receives $60,000
Sanders’ Allocation To Help Replace Materials Removed When Madison Left
Three months after taking charge of the Beach 41st Street Community Center, the New York City Housing Authority now has the funds to replenish items that were removed from the center when it took over running it on October 19. More...
• article has image 101 Pct.’s Spano, Mo Receive Officers Of The Month
• article has image Gateway Superintendent Awarded
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 Entertainment/ Lifestyles
• article has image MovieScope
‘A Single Man’ —- Gay Heartbreak
Rare is the Hollywood drama, which features a gay character, who is actually happy. Certainly not Oscar-winner “Brokeback Mountain,” tinseltown’s first major take on homosexuality. “Milk” is an exception of sorts, with Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk so exuberant in his gayness that it leads to his political assassination. More...
• Westbury Releases 2010 Schedule
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 Business News
• article has image Mrs. Elaine’s School of Dance
The Place to Dance and Exercise!
It's one of the most elegant, newly renovated indoor spaces on the peninsula— Mrs. Elaine’s School of Dance at 181 Beach 116 Street in Rockaway Park. Proprietor Elaine Freeburg found the perfect spot for the school last year, and designed the space as a soothing and inviting haven for dance and exercise. More...
• article has image RSC Hosts Investment Seminar
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 Columnists
• The Rockaway Irregular
Tsunami in Massachusetts?
Watching the recent election returns in the special senatorial race in Massachusetts to fill the seat of the late Ted Kennedy, I was struck by the remarkable difference in narratives between Fox News and MSNBC (a cable news station that defines itself, in contradistinction to Fox, as the go-to network for progressives and other assorted leftleaning observers). More...
• The Rockaway Beat
• It’s My Turn
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 Milestones
• article has image SJEH Donates To Haiti Relief Efforts
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital continues to support the Haiti earthquake relief effort. Last week, attending surgeon Rulx Dupiton, MD, flew into the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince along with former resident Michelle Gordon to assist with medical relief efforts. He is heading for the provinces and a hospital north of the capital where they are in need of surgeons. More...
• article has image Bake Sale For Haiti Raises $700
• article has image Couple Announces Engagement
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 Sports
• SFDS Bantams, Rookies Win First Round CYO Playoff Games
The Girls CYO Basketball playoffs began this weekend for St. Francis de Sales. The Bantams and Rookies won while the Pee Wee Gold and Intermediates took tough losses. More...
• Williams Advances to Colgate Games At The Garden
• article has image New York Aviators Win: Hosts Hockey Clinic
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 Editorial/Opinion
• EMS Big Made A Deadly Decision
“Volunteer ambulances are no longer needed,” the memo from an unnamed Emergency Medical Service higher-up said. That decision to no longer allow volunteer ambulance corps to participate in the city’s 911 emergency response system is a grave mistake that may well lead to lives lost, beause it effectively boots 25 community-run ambulance corps from the EMS computer system. More...
• article has image EDITORIAL COMMENT
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 Letters
• With All The Terror Attempts Lately…
Dear Editor, With all of the recent terror attempts lately, we have to rethink our Airport screening policies. We also have to change how we prosecute those accused of terror plots. More...
• Shame On You
• That’s Some Payday
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 Obits
• Lillian M. Jefferson
Longtime Resident
Lillian M. Jefferson, 92, a longtime Rockaway resident, died January 19. Jefferson was born in 1917 in Saint Charles, Missouri. Jefferson was preceded in death by Alfred Ayling, George Jefferson, and son, Walter Ayling. More...
• Mary Lee Reid
• Mary H. Smith
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