The days of rummaging through your car’s glove compartment for loose change while approaching the Atlantic Beach Bridge toll booth could be coming to an end in the near future.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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2/24/21
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A Far Rockaway man was arrested in connection with an incident that allegedly turned violent in Inwood on Feb. 22, Nassau police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/23/21
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One day after New Year’s Day, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway welcomed its first baby of 2021. Rockaway residents Taniqua Dicy Bradley and fiancée, Thomas Franklin Witcher, said hello to their baby girl, Treasure Storm Witcher, at 6:35 a.m. She was born at 6 lbs., 12 oz, and 19.5 inches long.
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By Hailey Gise
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1/13/21
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As the coronavirus pandemic struck the United States in mid-March Far Rockaway residents Abraham Miles and Theresa Murray-Pryor were two of the hundreds that St. John’s Episcopal Hospital treated at that early stage of Covid-19.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/17/20
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I certainly never thought in my lifetime that we would have lived through such a period.
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By Rabbi Boruch Bender
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12/2/20
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At times, reporting on the coronavirus pandemic has been reduced to numbers — the number of cases, positivity rates, the number of deaths. At hospitals, including St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, in Far Rockaway, there are many people behind those numbers, from the administrators who run the facility to the doctors and nurses who treat patients.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/2/20
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A Far Rockaway resident who allegedly inappropriately touched a Burlington Coat Factory employee also was said to have become combative twice had to be subdued by Nassau County police officers after his arrest on Nov. 27, according to police.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/29/20
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The presidential election saw not only historic voter turnout across the country, but also more participation in the Orthodox Jewish communities in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway, propelled by the …
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By Matthew Ferremi
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11/19/20
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The Lawrence School District will resume in-person instruction on Monday after being physically closed since Oct. 9, when the school district fell within the orange zone of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cluster hotspot initiative. The district returned all students to remote learning.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/21/20
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Jerome Justin Levenberg was a lawyer since 1961, however for the people who knew him he was so much more ranging from father to friend, artist to handyman to a comedian who kept a file of jokes on his computer.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/6/20
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