by Rockaway Staff | Aug 31, 2023 | High Tide
***** Here’s to a great Labor Day Weekend. And Happy Mardi Gras Weekend! ***** Don’t try to tell your kids (and especially not your DOE/schoolteacher friends!) but the summer is not over yet! Beaches are officially open until September 10, the boardwalk concessions...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 31, 2023 | We Get Email
Dear Editor: Chivalry is alive and well in Rockaway! Last Monday, I was walking with two of my friends on Rockaway Beach Boulevard when I stumbled and fell. I scraped my knee and elbow and split my chin, which bled profusely. I had no idea how bad I looked with blood...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 31, 2023 | We Get Email
Dear Editor: Erin Silvetti is correct. For most Americans, our ancestors emigrated here from elsewhere. However, there are very significant differences between their experiences as immigrants and the current tidal wave of “asylum seekers.” First of all,...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 31, 2023 | We Get Email
Dear Editor: When are people going to realize that Curtis Sliwa is nothing more than a self-serving, pompous bozo in a red cap? He yells and screams and guess what? We still get migrants moved into the places he gets arrested in front of. I went to the Floyd Bennet...
by Rockaway Staff | Aug 31, 2023 | We Get Email
Dear Editor: Back when I was in JHS 180, I wrote a long paper about endangered species. I have always admired the uniquely human efforts to save other species, though I take exception to this month’s Piping Plover PR push. A full-page ad and op-ed implied that 9 out...
