The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) has announced the selection of New City native Prerana Baranwal to its 2014-15 class of Albert Schweitzer Fellows from New Orleans. Baranwal, an alumna of Clarkstown North Senior High School, is one of 12 graduate students who will spend the next year learning to effectively address the social factors that […]
Venture Center updating memorial to disabled Holocaust victims STORY & PHOTO BY BOB BAIRD Work going on for the past few weeks behind the Venture Center is more than a facelift for a small pond. Indeed, it is a facelift on a symbol of tolerance and remembrance. In 1997, Camp Venture, which provides a variety […]
Olympian Maria Michta walked off with the women’s title and set a record en route to her victory at the USA Track & Field 30K Racewalk Championships held on Sept. 14 at Rockland Lake State Park in Congers. The race was organized and directed by Dave McGovern, a former Congers resident and 1983 Clarkstown North […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Stony Point goalkeeper McNicholas a first-class reserve There are stars galore across the collegiate landscape who hail from Rockland County, but there is another star of another fashion in Brian McNicholas of Stony Point. McNicholas, who started three years in goal at North Rockland High School, is a senior goalkeeper […]
STORY & PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN Several Rockland artists were featured at last week’s opening of the Bridge Art Show in Tarrytown, with Heather Leigh Douglas of Sparkill bringing home Best of Show. Because she did several encaustics of the Tappan Zee Bridge, Douglas felt it was a natural to enter the 2014 Bridge Art […]
Longtime Suffern residents Gardner & Josephine Watts and Connie Maslik received the Town of Ramapo’s Freedom Award at the annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday, September 11 at Ramapo Town Hall. The Freedom Award is presented annually for exemplary community service in memory of the town residents who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 […]