BY GEORGE J. DACRE Elmwood Playhouse on Park Street in Nyack is having a special concert of Les Miserables as a fund raiser January 19. Information at 845-353-1313 or elmwoodplayhouse.com. January 11 the date for “Coffee House” at the Nyack Village Theater at 94 Main Street Nyack. It will run through January 24. Tickets and […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Half –century doesn’t dim memories of aging batboy Vietnam veteran Pete Barbieri , a Spring Valley resident since June 1990, sits quietly at a table in the back of a county deli, and turns back the clock, to his days as a batboy at the old Yankee Stadium. Now […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Not since the days when Wyatt Earp worked the Wild West wearing a badge and a gun has there been such good news for law enforcement. The number of federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers in the U.S. who died in the line of duty last year dropped to a total […]
Warning to Rockland County municipalities: Tread carefully when challenging RLUPIA, the Clinton-era law that grants broad protections to constitutions by the religious groups. The Town of Greenburgh, NY, has agreed to pay $6.5 million to the Fortress Bible Church to end a 10-year litigation. The settlement follows a 206-page US District Court decision, which was […]
To the Editor, It would appear the outgoing Director of the Dept. Of Tourism just refuses to get it. With the taxpayers enduring the last three years of large property tax increases, the Dept. of Tourism is ending 2013 by wasting taxpayer dollars on a fireworks display. The fireworks are not FREE as stated on […]
Conservative talk radio trailblazer Bob Grant passed away New Year’s Eve at the age of 84.