BY HELENA M. HEWLETT To fall in love once and marry your best friend is an amazing feeling, a dream come true. Falling in love a second time, after all of your dreams are tragically shattered, is even more amazing. Those were the words of Kevin Houston, written in a letter submitted to “Live! With […]
BY CAROLYN JOHNSON Dr. Cynthia Mazzola, DVM, who has practiced quality veterinarian services for 21 years, has announced the opening of “Our House Call Vet Service” that promises superior veterinary service in the comfort of pet owners’ homes. Dr. Mazzola describes her new venture as “A good ol’ fashioned mom and pop business that is […]
BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL The Lunar calendar marked January 23 as the beginning of the year of the Dragon. This could be good news; in the Chinese Zodiac dragon years are the luckiest of all. Spirits were high as the Palisades Postal Store in West Nyack hosted an event on Sunday to celebrate the New Year […]
BY CAROLYN JOHNSON Nyack resident Bern Cohen admits, at the risk of sounding immodest, that he was an outspoken high school principal. Cohen was such an effective principal that, during the Mayor Dinkins administration, he was recruited to train principals in failing high schools throughout New York City. He would spend eighteen months working alongside […]
The rundown site of the former Middle Hope Drive-In movie theater on Route 9W in the Town of Newburgh is being redeveloped into a QuickChek store. Site work is underway laying the foundation for the store, which will be on five acres of the 11 acre property. The 6,500 SF store will become the latest […]
A failed effort to to track shell casings in the interest of solving crimes appears to be heading to legislative repeal. The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association said they applaud Governor Cuomo’s proposal to scrap the Combined Ballistic Identification System (CoBIS). After collecting over 356,000 spent shell casings since March 2001 at an […]