BY CHERYL SLAVIN At its meeting Tuesday night, The Stony Point Town Board unanimously passed a resolution to establish a Stony Point Town Dog Park on town property. As Councilman Jim Monaghan explained, the idea for a dedicated dog park arose during the 2013 campaign season as a response to the many requests made by […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN If life is like a river, then music would the sailboat with which Suffern resident Ed Packer has navigated it. Born and raised in Tarrytown, he is a singer/guitarist who has performed throughout the Hudson River Valley, even while devoting 33 years of his professional life to IBM. Now retired, he is […]
Note from Clarkstown PD: Clarkstown Police are investigating a suspicious, unattended death which occurred at 644 Andover Road, Valley Cottage. The deceased party’s name is Peggy Nadell, 81, from Valley Cottage, New York. The investigation is, at this point, still in its nascency. As further details emerge they will be released in a manner which […]
Chairman of the Rockland County GOP Vincent Reda has been replaced as the state GOP’s first vice chairman by Chairman Thomas V. Dadey, Jr. of Onondaga County, NYGOP announced this week. Reda had held the position–the second highest ranking party position in the state–since 2006. Party leaders cited a desire to balance upstate and downstate voices […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Uncle Jim used to herd a group of us kids into the car on a sunny Saturday morning and head to an isolated area outside town. His son, little Jim, my two cousins Sandy and Terry and I were full of anticipation. We were going target shooting — with a real gun […]
At a recent Rockland Economic Development Corporation (REDC) Board of Directors meeting, Chair Sandra D. Grannum, Esq., officially welcomed four new directors to the board, effective January 1, 2014. The new directors include: Kevin P. Duignan, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, St. Thomas Aquinas College. Kevin joined the College Community in 1997 as Director of […]