Sports columnist Marc Maturo’s official column Bulldogs looking to extend horizon in county The Tri-State Bulldogs, an adult minor-league football team based at the Torne Valley Sports Complex in Hillburn, are looking for a few good men and women. The Bulldogs, an independently operated organization that features players 18 and over – ranging from police […]
BY SALLY C. PIPES The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently gifted Obamacare’s “navigator” program an additional $13 million in funding. Navigators are supposed to help Americans purchase health coverage through the new, state-level insurance exchanges. This $13 million is on top of $54 million already allocated to the program. But both eight-figure […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECO On Sunday, October 6, the Shear Magique hair studio in Pomona held its 1st Annual Lucille Sabino Cut-a-thon, an event to raise proceeds for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “My feeling was because what we do for a living, we provide a service,” said salon owner Lenore Quiroga. “I felt because breast cancer […]
BY BARRY WARNER On Sunday October 13, The Nyack Hospital Foundation 5K Run/Walk event began and ended on the grounds of the Hospital, as 300 people participated in the ‘Blow Away Breast Cancer’ campaign. October is ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ and the activity was part of a concerted effort to promote breast health cognizance in […]
BY HARRY WAITZMAN I slip around stalks of goldenrod and wave to bumblebees. Kerplonk! I’m one unhappy bullfrog grumping in Congers Lake. A red-tailed hawk wheels above me as rows of apple trees green the horizon. The new moon climbs like a monkey as cicadas sing arias. A silver-haired conductor hums and gyrates, thrashing his […]
Residents offer cautious support, hearing to be continued BY CHERYL SLAVIN A lively and lengthy discussion took place Tuesday night at Suffern Town Hall as residents, elected officials and a prospective developer shared information and debated divergent viewpoints about the proposed zoning change and subsequent development of Suffern’s urban renewal district bordered by Orange Avenue […]