BY GEORGE J. DACRE Kevin Bacon, the star of “Footloose” and numerous other Hollywood hits, will appear with his brother Michael and their band, the “Bacon Brothers Band,” in Sugarloaf this weekend. Michael although not a celebrity like his brother, had had success composing music for film and television. As the name implies, the band […]
Driving While Intoxicated 4/14/12 On April 14, 2012 at approximately 4:30 p.m. the Clarkstown Police responded to Peterson’s Boatyard Upper Nyack on a report of a motor vehicle accident. The complainant (witness) reported he observed a vehicle traveling a high rate of speed from the pier, loose control of his vehicle and struck a boat […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN Community comes together to restore park’s hurricane damage On Sunday afternoon, Stony Point’s Eccher Park came alive with volunteers from five different counties who came to help restore the damage Hurricane Irene wreaked back in August. Each year the Starbucks in New City hosts an Earth Day event. Coming off a successful […]
Stony Point’s historic Pyngyp School is being restored by a dedicated group of volunteers who are holding a series of publicity and fund raising events this year to continue the progress they have already made. The Pyngyp Schoolhouse was built more than a century ago, one of nearly 100 such crude one-room wooden schoolhouses that […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN Never let go It’s been 100 years since the RMS Titanic sank in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. It was on the fourth day of the Titanic’s maiden voyage from Southampton England to New York City when tragedy struck. On April 14, 1912, at 11:40 p.m., the starboard side of […]
BY ALLEN GOLDSTEIN The culmination of a long sought dream came to fruition last Sunday when the Mental Health Association of Rockland County (MHA) dedicated its new home in Valley Cottage. Threatening skies did not deter a large group of attendees who came to pay tribute to the namesake of the center, Senator Thomas P. […]