Service increased by 5.6 percent when combined with October additions MTA PRESS RELEASE Schedule changes that represent Metro-North Railroad’s self-described “biggest and most ambitious service expansion” in its 30-year history begin Sunday, April 7, 2013. The new timetables will include increased off-peak and weekend train frequencies as well as faster service to many customers. This […]
From the Clarkstown PD Office of Public Information On Saturday, March 9, 2013 at approximately 1 p.m. units were dispatched to Middletown Road at intersection with West Clarkstown Road for a motor vehicle accident. Police said Donna Weldon, 45, from Congers, was driving a 2007 Hyundai north on Middletown Road when she rear-ended a 1991 […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM CUOMO Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that a $1.5 billion TIFIA loan for the bridge project to replace the Tappan Zee will move to next stage of the U.S. Department of Transportation loan process. This financing will lower tolls on the bridge below all prior projections, though the state continues to […]
Assemblyman James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) announced that he will be holding monthly mobile office hours in Stony Point on March 19. The evening hour-long sessions will give Hudson Valley families the opportunity to make their voices heard and bring local issues to his attention. “My duty as an Assemblyman is to represent the needs of local families in Albany,” Assemblyman […]
Statement of Tri-State Transportation Campaign Executive Director Veronica Vanterpool on the report of New York State’s federal loan application moving forward: “New York State’s taxpayers will be paying more money in taxes and tolls for a Tappan Zee Bridge that does little to reduce traffic congestion, improve transit or strengthen the Hudson Valley economy in the […]
FROM www.onlocationvacations.com WARWICK—The new movie “True Story,” which is being produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company, is currently filming around Cascade Rd and Brady Rd in Warwick, NY. They are also working around Warwick County Park. The movie is based on a memoir by Michael Finkel, the former New York Times Magazine writer who learned Christian Longo, one of […]