The Rockland County chapter of The Compassionate Friends invites families to the 23nd annual Children’s Memorial Day. It will take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 14 at the Children’s Memorial Garden in Veterans Memorial Park, in Orangeburg, New York. The service, celebrating the lives of children, grandchildren and siblings who are no longer […]
Representatives from the ARCs of Rockland, Putnam, Westchester and Orange Counties celebrated the 65th anniversary of NYSARC, the state-wide umbrella organization serving people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. The group met on Bear Mountain Bridge, July 3. Participants affixed the chapter names to the NYSARC flag in a symbolic gesture marking NYSARC’s broad and […]
Patricia Maloney-Titland and Christopher Plummer are at it again, continuing a Rockland County Shakespearean tradition they spawned way back in 1998 when “Romeo and Juliet” was staged in the courtyard at Rockland Community College. This year two shows by William the great are being featured: “All’s Well that Ends Well” showing July 18 and 20 […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – The Rockland County District Attorney’s Office released its annual report this Tuesday, emphasizing an expansion in drug enforcement and treatment as well as ramped up efforts against domestic abuse, human trafficking and fradulent receipts of STAR benefits. In 2013, the DA’s Office prosecuted 608 felony cases this year, up […]
On July 15, 2014, the Stony Point Police Department arrested Jarad T. Sheppard, 42, of 21 South St., Haverstraw, on the charges of criminal possession of controlled substance, seventh degree, unlawful possession of marihuana and criminal contempt (bench warrant). The defendant was arrested after vehicle and traffic stop revealed that the defendant was wanted on […]
Powerhouse House Dance Studio, recently opened in West Haverstraw, held their first dance recital this past week at Fieldstone Elementary in Stony Point.