Community members will be seeing some changes as a result of the change of commanders of the 101 Precinct in Far Rockaway. For the last three weeks, Captain Michael J. Lipetri has been taking stock of his new command. More...
The Plumbers Local Union #200 Joint Apprenticeship Committee will conduct recruitment from May 3, 2010 through April 18, 2011 for eighteen plumber apprentices, State Labor Commissioner Colleen C. Gardner announced today. More...
After little more than a week of work by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Representative. Anthony Weiner announced Tuesday, the successful completion of efforts to replenish Rockaway Beach, which was severely eroded because of recent storms. More...
Assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer, who is a member of the National Association of Jewish Legislators, recently had the opportunity to meet with Israeli diplomats. More...
The monthly council meeting, which is usually held every fourth Wednesday at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Rockaway Beach, was held this month at West End Temple in Neponsit. More...
From recovering trash in the dunes to removing sand from the stairs leading to the beach, by the benches and around O’Donohue Park, Disney Volunteers spread out across the lower part of Far Rockaway Beach last Saturday. More...
“Green Liquor,”shown above, is one of the many paintings by Susan De Castro that will be on display at the Rockaway Artists Alliance sTudio 6 Gallery, Fort Tilden. More...
In time for the holiday weekend, the Health Department has announced that all of the city’s 21 public and permitted private beaches will be open for the season beginning Saturday, May 29. More...
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe along with Rockaway’s elected officials kicked off the start to the summer beach season this week. Students from P.S. More...
New York City’s Nicotine Patch and Gum Giveaway Program enrolled more than 40,000 smokers in 2010, nearly one and a half times more than last year’s enrollment of 28,000 smokers, the Health Department reported. More...
In the summer before his senior year, a classmate of New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner David J. Swarts was killed in a car crash in the West Seneca School District. More...
Roy Reuther Senior Center and Brookdale Village participated in the Council of Senior Centers and Services Advocacy Day on May 12. This day was organized to protest the possible closings of 50 part-time senior centers around the city. More...
The Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corporation (RDRC) hosted its annual dinner-dance at Russo’s On the Bay in Howard Beach on May 19, drawing hundreds of civic activists, politicians an More...
Dinghy sailing is alive and well at Sebago Canoe Club, which hosted its Second Annual District 8 Laser Regatta this past weekend. Sailors of laser boats came from as far away as Saratoga and Sayville to enter the race across Jamaica Bay. More...
The Barefoot Wine Company joins the Surfrider Foundation in the fourth annual Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project. The event is June 12 on Beach 91 Street. The cleanup takes place between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. More...
Children who regularly use the Queens Library at Arverne have been drumming up signatures on petitions in hopes of helping to restore funding to the library. More...
New York Hall of Science opened a new exhibit May 8. Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches explores the world’s most biologically diverse river. The museum is open Tuesday through Thursday 9:30 a.m. More...
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