BY JANIE ROSMAN Rockland County land records indicate Jacqueline Peralta and her husband Roberto Garcia officially sold their house at 317 S. Broadway — one of six home originally targeted for eminent domain — to Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC (TZC) on August 21, 2014, for $450,302. Earlier this year, TZC bought the home of next-door […]
BY CHRIS FAULKNER The nation’s economic woes have hit American Indians hard. Between 2008 and 2013, unemployment for American Indians never once dipped below 10 percent, the highest rates for any group in all the Midwest, Northern Plains, and Southwest. And nearly one in three single-race American Indians live in poverty, according to the United […]
Pack your lawn chairs and come out to the Great Lawn of Harmony Hall, Jacob Sloat House (1848), 15 Liberty Rock Road, Sloatsburg for the fifth annual Highlands Bluegrass and Crafts Festival on Sunday, September 7 from 1-6 p.m. Renowned fiddler Sue Cunningham and her band bring bluegrass back to the Ramapo Highlands. Joining the […]
Nyack Village Theatre has announced the 2014 Nyack Film Festival winners. The festival was held August 21, 22, 23 and 24 at Nyack Village Theatre, Main Street, Nyack. They winners are as follows: Best Short – A Thousand Miles from the Sea Filmmaker: Marta Renzi Best Foreign Documentary – Håstdans på Hovdala Producer: The Equus […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day As I drove home last week from a community gathering in Ramapo, it occurred to me that it’s time to give my car a bath. My job as County Executive puts me behind the wheel every day, rolling from busy highway to dusty back road in all weather conditions. […]
Debut of 20 year-old Dilson Herrera BY JOE RINI If spring is the season of hope, fall has a way of forcing people to face reality. Summer fun is ending. For students with a summer reading list, it might be the realization that they have to spend the day after Labor Day reading 320 pages […]