What’s Happening 9/4/14

BY GEORGE J. DACRE – Husband/wife musical duo Francine Evans and Joel Zelnick do a cabaret revue “Destination, Las Vegas” on Sunday, September 28 at the ’76 House in Tappan. Songs of Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong and more. Showtimes 6:30 and 8 p.m. Information at 845-359-5476. – Jim Brochu in the musical revue […]

TIMELINES 9/4/14

Woman injured by thruway overpass jump A Connecticut woman sustained serious injuries Thursday afternoon after she jumped off an overpass and onto a Nyack on ramp of the New York State Thruway. The Hamden woman parked her car and jumped from the on ramp of Exit 10, which connects the Thruway to Route 9W and South […]

Second South Nyack Home Saved from Eminent Domain, Purchased by TZC

Second South Nyack Home Saved from Eminent Domain, Purchased by TZC

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 […]

OPINION: Local Energy Expansion Would Fuel Tribal Independence

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 […]