Health Department Issues Boil Advisory for Sloatsburg

PRESS RELEASE FROM HEALTH DEPT. The Rockland County Health Department has issued a boil water order for certain streets in Sloatsburg. Customers are ordered to boil their water before using it for drinking or cooking purposes. The boil water order is a precautionary measure following a main break in the area. Loss of pressure in […]

FORMER SENATOR SHIRLEY HUNTLEY ADMITS SHE’S A CROOK

PRESS RELEASE FROM AG AND COMPTROLLER’S OFFICES NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced that former New York Senator Shirley L. Huntley has pleaded guilty to Tampering with Physical Evidence, an E Felony, for falsifying evidence in an effort to obstruct the investigation into the theft of […]

DORNER THOUGHT DEAD AFTER SHOWDOWN WITH COPS

DORNER THOUGHT DEAD AFTER SHOWDOWN WITH COPS

Ex-LAPD and Navy veteran Christopher Dorner led local, state and federal authorities on a wild goose chase through southern California this past week. Dorner, an apparently disgruntled ex-cop, released a manifesto bashing LAPD and society at large and then went on a killing spree that led to four deaths, including two cops. The other two […]

Brothers in Arms

Brothers in Arms

BY AARON SCHULDINER Upon the fields of friendly strife, are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory –Douglas MacArthur, USMA Class of 1903 It’s a brisk January afternoon in West Point, NY, but it’s like a sauna inside Christl Arena. Despite it being a holiday weekend on […]

Draft 2013-2014 Clarkstown School Budget Includes Property Tax Increase

Clarkstown School District Assistant Superintendent for Business, Facilities and Fiscal Management John LaNave presented a proposed school budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year to the Clarkstown Board of Education on Thursday. The budget would retain a $9 million gap and increase the property tax levy by 4.3 percent, while preventing cuts to current programs and […]

PUBLIC SCOPING SESSIONS TO BEGIN FOR GASIFICATION PLANT

The Stony Point Planning Board will begin its public scoping hearing for the Biomass Waste-to-Energy “Gasification” plant being proposed at Holt Drive Industrial Park on Wednesday, February 20. The hearing will take place at RHO Building on Clubhouse Lane and written public comments can be submitted to the board until February 27.