Several local residents were named 2013-2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars during a ceremony April 10 at Rochester Institute of Technology: – Alyssa Kara Miller, daughter of Ellen Miller of New City, N.Y., is a fourth-year student in the Graphic Design – BFA program in RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. – Allison Rose Ritter, daughter […]
The New City Street Fair, sponsored by the New City Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Sunday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Main Street in downtown New City. The Street Fair will feature The Mighty Spectrum Band, amusements and rides, House of Bounce, karaoke, balloon artist, caricaturist and more.
The Rockland Community Foundation has announced the addition of the following new fund to its portfolio: the Green Cemetery Fund. The Green Cemetery Fund has been created with the goal of establishing a sustainable alternative to conventional cemeteries, offering ecologically sound burial options and a natural return to earth. Each burial supports restoration and preservation […]
Apparently some voyeurs and trespassers of the properties at Letchworth Village in Haverstraw and Stony Point, believe artifacts found at the mostly-shuttered mental health facility and former home for the disabled, have market value. Seen here is a rubber CPR mask, described as “creepy,” that an Ebay user claims was found in the ruins of […]
BY HARRY WAITZMAN Tadpoles in Spring Ice cokes lazy brooks, streams Thaw and unwind across meadows, our only cow remembers my name and sings a song to Harry from deep within her bovine lungs as her calf pokes her swollen udders. I feel the weight of growing up with no mud on my sneaks, and […]