by Rockaway Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | NEWS
School’s out and the 19th annual RockStock and Barrels festival is here! On Saturday, June 28, head to Beach 90th Street for a full day of live music, surf contests, skate contests, volleyball, shopping and more. St. James NYC, Boarders and Into the Whip Records are...
by Rockaway Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | McVeighing In
English is a funny language. It’s famously one of the hardest to learn as an adult. Technically a Germanic language, English is also a linguistic mutt with a vocabulary consisting of all sorts of Latin, Greek, Old English, and French all thrown into the same pot. And...
by Rockaway Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | NEWS
The heat wave is a reminder that sometimes it’s nice to do things indoors, in air conditioning. Just in time, a new place will offer some indoor fun on the peninsula, especially for pickleball fans. Rockaway Beach Pickleball & Golf opens Saturday, June 28....
by Rockaway Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | NEWS
It was a great election night for Rockaway in the Queens GOP primaries. While votes are still being counted, at least 35 locals were elected to County Committee in contested districts. The previous, Queens-GOP-appointed slate only had 14 people from the peninsula...
by Rockaway Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | High Tide
Happy Birthday to us! The Rockaway Times is celebrating our 11th anniversary today! On June 26, 2014, we published our very first issue — and we’ve been hitting the stands every Thursday since. ***** This paper wouldn’t exist without its founder, Kevin Boyle, who had...
