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Show Biz - The Tramway took a starring role this month in a Fear Factor episode set to air in November. After a stunt that involved hanging from a net below the cabin, a contestant swung on a safety line
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Saturday, July 31, 2004
 Volume 24, Issue 21

Its Earliest Goal for Deposits Never Met,
Montauk Credit Union Leaves the Island

Dysfunctional adj. 1. Not performing
its function properly 2. Total mess 3. Albany

PSD Takes Repeated Hits at Eastwood Rent Hearing

The RIRA Column
The RIOC Column
Editorial: Just Two (of Too Many) Enforcement Failures...
Letters
Public Safety Blotter

Briefly...
Jessica Lappin, expected to run for Gifford
Miller’s City Council seat next year (when Miller is
expected to campaign for the Mayor’s office), has
raised over $70,000 for her campaign.

Joan Matula, among the earliest residents of
Eastwood and long an Island activist, has died. Click Here
for more information.

A Ten-Day Tram Shutdown is in the offing for
August, for general maintenance, tentatively set to
start August 9.

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