East Rockaway News

As their latest fundraiser to raise money for the children of the East Rockaway school district, the East Rockaway Education Foundation announced that the "Harlem Wizards" basketball team will be bringing their exciting brand of "trick hoopz and alley oops" to the East Rockaway High School gymnasium on Sunday, Nov.

Judge Gary Knobel of First District Court dismissed the charges Thursday after defense attorney Joseph Girardi of North Valley Stream produced a 2001 memo from the county attorney's office that said it was legal to remove signs from county property because they should not have been put there in the first place.

Oceanside Legis. Jeff Toback the election - and the Democrats their legislative majority - it was the consolidation of area sewage into the plant at Bay Park, political observers say.

Tiana Seaman, left, Gianluca Ancona & Jessica Seepersaud with some of the candy they collected to send to the troops.

Gregory Pearsall, 46, of Seawane Road is accused of breaking into the home on Royal Avenue, police said.

Former East Rockaway Mayor Charles Formont died suddenly on October 21. Formont, who served as an East Rockaway Village Trustee from 1987 to 1995, and another two terms as mayor from 1995 to 2003, was a lifelong village resident and a 49-year member of the East Rockaway Fire Department and Rescue Squad.

Three people died on this speedboat after driver George Canni, 65, crashed into a marsh near Seaford on Oct.

NEW YORK, NY October 15, 2009 a 'Could a mathematical formula cause a big leap forward in the job search? The New York State Department of Labor thinks so.

The Health of local waterways is the subject of a lawsuit filed against Nassau County by the Town of Hempstead.

A suspect was arrested about an hour later, and police charged Nicholas Inslee, 28, of 7 Cammerer Ave., East Rockaway , with robbery, assault and resisting arrest.

Centre Avenue Elementary School in East Rockaway has been chosen as a "Blue Ribbon" school.

Any Nassau County High School football team seeded fifth, seventh or eighth in its respective conference began the season with back-to-back road games and will play at home for the first time in 2009 in Week 3. That includes eight locals: Baldwin, Calhoun, Clarke, East Meadow, East Rockaway, Kennedy, Long Beach and Lynbrook.

Residents were told to stay in their homes, and traffic was redirected away from a four-block area around 4 p.m. on Friday when the Nassau County SWAT unit, along with dozens of police officers, cordened off an area around Davison Court in East Rockaway.

A driver lost control of her 4x4 vehicle in East Rockaway shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, hitting two parked cars, knocking down two utility poles, and crashing through a fence before coming to rest sideways on the Long Island Rail Road tracks just west of the Centre Avenue train station.

LIRR Long Beach Branch Service is temporarily suspended due to a car on the tracks at Centre Avenue in East Rockaway.

Some motorists are complaining that new red-light cameras in Nassau County are getting them ticketed for so-called rolling right turns -- not coming to a full stop before turning right on red.

EVEN if you've never been to the Fishery in East Rockaway, you've probably been somewhere like it: a casual seafood spot with an outdoor deck overlooking the water .

Close is only good in horse shoes, so the saying goes. Few know that better than the planners of Nassau county's new red light camera program.

An East Rockaway resident and his friend had just returned to his Phipps Avenue home Sunday night when he saw two men running out the front door, Nassau police said.

Written by Michael M. Martino, Jr. on Jul 20th, 2009 and filed under L.I. News , News .