Police are looking for a suspect who used a boat to access a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant Sunday morning and exchanged fire with a security guard on the plant grounds before fleeing downriver. The shootout occurred “several hundred yards from the site’s protected area, which houses the reactor and power production facilities,” TVA spokesman Jim […]
United Water will be performing work on a water main in Piermont and Grandview on Tuesday, April 23. This work will require water service to be shut off at about 10 a.m. for the addresses below. The shut-down is expected to last about four hours. Customers have been notified by phone call. Piermont: 659 Piermont […]
Center for Safety & Change offers multi-lingual, multi-cultural programs and services to the many diverse populations of Rockland County, including “PROJECT TIKVAH,” a program for Orthodox Jewish women. Since it began in 1994, PROJECT TIKVAH has been serving the needs of clients in the Orthodox Community in a myriad of ways. Center advocate and Coordinator […]
The big questions buzzing over Boston Bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have a single answer: It emerged in the 102 tense hours between the twin Boston Marathon bombings Monday, April 15 – which left three dead, 180 injured and a police officer killed at MIT – and Dzohkhar’s capture Friday, April 19 in Watertown. The […]
ALBANY – Job growth in the Ulster County metropolitan area for the year ending in March grew by almost three percent, the highest of any county in the region. The State Labor Department Thursday said that 2.9 percent growth is contrasted by the continued weak showing of Sullivan County, which lost 1.1 percent of […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland Water Coalition hosted an occasionally heated debate between candidates for county executive on the evening of April 18, covering issues ranging from United Water’s proposed desalination plant in Haverstraw to the continued issues surrounding Indian Point. The debate had five participants: Suffern mayor Dagan LaCorte, County Legislator Ilan Schoenberger, former […]