by Rockaway Staff | Mar 28, 2024 | NEWS
On Monday, March 25, 31-year-old NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller said goodbye to his wife, Stephanie, and his one-year-old son at his Massapequa home, to head into another day of protecting New York City. By Monday evening, that wife became a widow, and that baby lost...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 28, 2024 | NEWS
MARCH 28 Kate Johnson was born. Yarden Flatow was born. 1939 – The Spanish Civil War ended. 1979 – A nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, PA, occurred. MARCH 29 Grace Leahy was born. Davina Grincevicius was...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 28, 2024 | NEWS
You may have seen the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy (JBRPC) team exploring the local ecology with students on Rockaway Beach or planting cordgrass to help restore the salt marshes of Jamaica Bay. You may have even volunteered with us to clean up marine debris...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 28, 2024 | High Tide
Happy Easter! ***** On Monday evening, tragedy struck this city — this time in our own backyard. NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, 31, was tragically shot and killed in Far Rockaway during a traffic stop. Words don’t do much at a time like this. Nothing can be said to...
by Rockaway Staff | Mar 28, 2024 | NEWS
Mother Teresa once said, “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples,” and this past Friday, March 22, the waters of civic leadership and community service were indeed rippling for high school students at Scholars’...
