Helping Hands’ Outreach is in need of the following: · Chest of Drawers (either highboy or lowboy) · Light, waterproof jackets (all sizes) · Winter gloves (men’s and women’s) · Sturdy men’s shoes and boots · Spring shoes, sandals and sneakers (men’s and women’s) · Small folding umbrellas Please help us by NOT donating any of […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Lady Spartans moving forward in women’s lacrosse The St. Thomas Aquinas College women’s lacrosse team, which reeled off four straight decisive victories to open the season before running into nationally second-ranked Adelphi University, is headed for a highly successful season. This opinion is held by fourth-year associate head coach Rob […]
The infamous leader of Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, is on death’s door, according to his estranged son. Beginning in the early 2000s, Phelps and his church, comprised largely of his close and extended family, began terrorizing their fellow Americans, showing up at funerals with signs reading that God Hates Them and is glad they […]
Local youth from the Hudson Valley who have had it with marketing from the tobacco industry joined youth around the country to stand up and speak out against big tobacco on Kick Butts Day, March 19. The Hudson Valley Tobacco Free Partners (SmokeFree Dutchess, POW’R Against Tobacco, TFAC of Ulster and Reality Check of Rockland […]
NEW CITY – In a reversal of a controversial decision by Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme, State Judge Gerald Loehr struck down the mayor’s dismissal of Village Trustee Vilair Fonvil on Monday. The decision comes two weeks after Fonvil and his allies on the board, Trustees Emilia White and Asher Grossman, successfully filed a restraining […]
Ramapo Police Department, in conjunction with numerous other Rockland County law enforcement agencies, conducted a ‘Crackdown’ Stop-DWI detail during the period leading up to and including St. Patrick’s Day. The detail was coordinated by the Rockland County Stop-DWI Office. Ramapo Police arrested 30 year old Jackenton Lavalasse, from New City, for DWAI Drugs and Unlawful […]