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. The weekly newspaper, currently under Editor In Chief Mark C. Healey, is well known to Rockaway residents for coverage of community events and local politics. The paper contains considerable historical information about Rockaway, largely provided by historian

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. The Wave's US Postal Statement of Management and Circulation for 2018 indicates the paper was sold to the owners of ''

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'' group ending 125 years of independent local control and ownership. Since 2018, the new publisher, lifelong Queens resident, Walter H. Sanchez and his son, John Sanchez, have continued the local charm of the paper with a number of glossy editions including the yearl
Rockaway AlmanacSummer Guide
Anniversary Issue and a yearly glossy Rockaway Health and Wellness Guide. On October 1st 2022 The Wave operated a 'Rockaway Family Fun Day Festival' on Beach 116th Street - featuring live bands, rides, health agencies like St. Johns Episcopal Hospital and The Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center. The event was also the debut of the yearly 'Meat-Up-Grill' Burger Eating Contest. Weekly columns add to the local coverage readers of The Wave are accustomed to. Fishing Report by Captain Vinnie Calabro, Who's Playing and Gotham Baseball by Mark Healey, All In with John Jastremski, Glorified Tomato by Paula DiGioia, The Financial Wave by Robert Intelisano, SIT with John Roberts, Wavemaker by Kerry Murtha and Sullivan's Stories by Kay Sullivan
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Its Beachcomber weekly column is also a daily newsletter sent to almost 10K email subscribers on a daily basis. The paper now conducts local reader polls on local political races The paper has won numerous New York Press Awards, most notable for its local editorial illustration/cartoons, drawn by Thomas Kerr. The paper originated in the aftermath of the great Rockaway Beach Seaside fire of 1892. A local publisher, in the desire to keep the community informed of the event, published a broadsheet with the headline, "WAVE OF FIRE SWEEPS ROCKAWAY". The favorable response to the broadsheet led him to establish a weekly newspaper which he dubbed ''The Wave of Long Island'' after the initial headline.Rockaway..."place of waters bright"
, from ''The Wave of Long Island'', accessed December 27, 2006. " The increasing appeal of the Rockaway area gave rise to an amusement park in Seaside, which attracted families from all over the city. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the Great Seaside Fire in 1892. It was at that time that The Wave was founded serving as the community newspaper of the entire Rockaway peninsula."

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External links

The Wave website
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