BY ROBERT RHODES Chairman, Preserve Ramapo In September 2012 Preserve Ramapo submitted two petitions to the town of Ramapo. One asked for a referendum to establish single member electoral districts in Ramapo. The other asked that the number of town councilmen be increased from four to six. Instead of reviewing the petitions Chris Samson the […]
VFW Ladies Auxiliary of Piermont gave $400 in supermarket gift cards to the veterans now living in Phase I of Homes for Heroes, which is building affordable housing for homeless and disabled veterans. Homes for Heroes is built on Camp Shanks, in Tappan, N.Y., from which over 1.3 million GI’s left to fight in Europe […]
At a board meeting earlier this month, the Town of Haverstraw honored two girls basketball teams from St. Gregory Barbarigo’s CYO program for winning state championships this season. St. Gregory’s Varsity Girls team was honored including players Aleya Corretjer, Francesca Cipollina, Mairead Durkin, Megan Ferguson, Elizabeth Fox, Shannon Knipl, Alexa Huertas, Caeli Porette, Nina Lasso […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA A movement to re-name the new Tappan Zee Bridge to honor Purple Heart recipients is underway in the Lower Hudson Valley, gathering both debate and support as veterans and their advocates petition Albany to dedicate the bridge to those wounded in America’s armed conflicts. Now, that campaign has spread to Rockland. County […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Author Evan Smith delves deeply into the Bible, and Catholic and Evangelical beliefs in this “heaven-sent comedy,” as Penguin’s artistic director Joe Brancato describes “Savannah Disputation.” Director Mark Shanahan gets the most out of a stellar cast that includes Susan Pellegrino as Mary and Tina Johnson as her sister, Margaret, both […]
RAMAPO — More than 1,400 students received degrees today from Rockland Community College at its 54th Commencement Ceremony in the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse on Sunday. The 1,443 total graduates include the classes of May ’14 (846), December ’13 (293) and August ’13 (304). ABC Chief Correspondent Byron Pitts, an award winning journalist, news anchor and […]