Ocean Beach News

The sun sets over Welsh mountains in a December 2008 file photo. The sun sets over Welsh mountains in a December 2008 file photo.

We all know times are tough, but that's no reason not to come to the beach to relax, dine and enjoy nature.

Here's what is happening on Fire Island over the Fourth of July weekend: Cherry Grove July 4: Oh Mary! Join thousands of drag queens and their friends as they board a ferry to invade the Fire Island Pines.

Annie Goodale bikes to Sturgis every summer on a hog donated by her homies from New York.

A fast-moving fire destroyed two neighboring homes in the Fire Island Pines on May 20.

BMO's Cesare Cera and Ricky Rinaldi lift angelic strings from Henry Mancini's "Lujon," which add a touch of beatific cocktail jazz to their sturdy 100-bpm beats on "Ocean Beach." Allesandro Meroli's live flute plus 'nuff percussion recall NY DJ Sasha's Organic Groove ethno-downtempo excursions, a sound furthered on the flip's airy Brazilian ode ...

Dining on Fire Island, our trip pick of the week , most often consists of stepping into your backyard, firing up the grill, and bbq-ing yourself a brat or a fresh cut of fish from the cooler.

While we love biking in the city, sometimes it gets to be a bit much. Contending with horn-honking, overzealous cabbies, disappearing bike lanes and a maze of cars and buses is enough to make even the most determined peddler long for greener pastures.

Happy 90th birthday, Pete Seeger! I have loved this man and his music since I was 14 years old and first heard him playing the banjo at Buck's Rock Work Camp.

Elected and agency officials joined coastal engineers and homeowner representatives on April 17 in a tour of a beach nourishment project Fire Island homeowners.

Fire Island residents are spending about $23 million to restore their beaches. The project that started in January ends April 25 and will have added more than two million cubic yards of sand to beaches used by 11 of the islanda s communities.

A jury has acquitted the acting chief of the Ocean Beach Police Department on Fire Island of charges that he beat up a tourist.

Two police officers were acquitted Monday of all the remaining charges against them after a Fire Island tourist suffered a ruptured bladder in their custody.

It took eight days for the jury to return the not guilty verdict for two Ocean Beach cops.

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A former Ocean Beach police officer told jurors Wednesday he had "a front-row seat" to the beating of a Manhattan tourist that he said he will "never forget." David Gerdon, who was later fired from the department, said the Aug.

He remembers being hit. He remembers being punched. But Sam Gilberd told a jury in the trial of two Long Island police officers accused of beating him that he blacked out after being kicked in the stomach.

The Manhattan man who has accused Ocean Beach police of beating him so badly his bladder burst said his attackers' faces were hazy, but other details were crystal clear.

A Riverhead jury heard opening statements Friday in the trial of George Hesse, acting chief of the Ocean Beach police department, who is accused of brutally beating a tourist who had been ticketed for littering ...