COLUMN AND PHOTOS BY BOB BAIRD On Friday mornings at Grace’s Thrift Shop on Main Street in Nyack, one thing is certain. In a back corner of the consignment shop filled with pots, pans, glassware and assorted clothes and trinkets, there’s Ruth Butler taking tags off items and bagging each customer’s newest treasure. She’s an […]
Local media sources have reported that reputed mobster Daniel Pagano, 61, of Ramapo, was arrested on racketeering and conspiracy charges related to loan sharking and gambling. His alleged associate Michael Palazzolo was also arrested. The Journal News said prosecutors indicated Pagano is a captain or “capo” in the nationwide Genovese crime family. He allegedly runs […]
CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Port Authority police this afternoon identified the DWI driver of a Porsche dragged several hundred yards overnight by a tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge as a 55-year-old Rockland County man. Stuart J. Lieberman of Monsey had a nearly empty bottle of vodka in the car after the 2003 Porsch 911Porche struck the rig […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – The County Legislature voted on Wednesday to override County Executive Ed Day’s veto of their bill approving a referendum of changes to the the county charter, potentially ending a drawn-out conflict between the two branches of government over how much to reform government functions. The legislature narrowly approving the […]
As Nyack community members gather tonight for a planning session to help design the new skateboard park within Nyack’s Memorial Park, a state lawmaker is expected to announce a $100,000 state grant to help the project. That funding would likely make plans for building the skateboard park in 2015 a reality. State Sen. David Carlucci, […]
The SMART Sales Unit of the Clarkstown Police Department conducts monthly enforcement compliance checks of local licensed retailers of alcohol products and conducts subsequent court ordered educational classes in the safe and lawful sale of these products. CPD announced that this week so far the the Clarkstown Police SMART Sales Unit in conjunction with Officers […]