NEW GENERATION THEATRE FEATURES AREA YOUNG PERFORMERS

August 7 through the 9, 2014: The New Generation Theatre, a young performers theatre company in Rockland, launches its fourth annual production, “Hairspray.” The big, fat musical comedy, “Hairspray,” is brought to life by a cast of teenagers from the Hudson Valley area under the direction of Sol Bloch and Justin Boccitto with assistance from […]

Rob Astorino holds fundraiser at supporter’s home in Upper Nyack

PHOTOS BY BILL WEBER Carl Wortendyke hosted GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino at his home this past weekend, helping the resurgent underdog to raise many thousands of dollars. Astorino’s challenger, incumbent Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, has become enmeshed in a major scandal due to his alleged obstruction of the anti-corruption Moreland Commission. Astorino may have […]

CBP at JFK ‘Bags’ Smuggler

Officers seize Cocaine from Passenger in Computer Bag HOMELAND SECURITY PRESS RELEASE A traveler had more than a laptop in her computer bag when she arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Fortunately U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers were ‘on-line’ to firewall her plans. On July 17, CBP officers intercepted […]

What’s Happening 7/31/14

BY GEORGE J. DACRE – Shades Repertory in Haverstraw performing “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Gibsen, July 31 and August 1 at 8 p.m. Directed by Laura Clinton. Contact shadesrepertory@yahoo.com. – “The Fabulous Lipitones” at Penguin Rep Theatre, Stony Point weekends August 8 to 31 about a barbershop quartet with a new member who is […]

DESCENDENT OF EUGENE NEWMAN THANKS THE ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES AND CHERYL SLAVIN FOR MARKING 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF NORTH ROCKLAND’S “CRIME OF THE CENTURY”

To the Editor, Eugene M. Newman, murdered by William V. Cleary in 1914, was my great-uncle. I and my father (his nephew, whom he never knew) were named after him. I knew nothing of this story until years after I had grown up and moved to Chicago. It was never discussed during my childhood in […]

Pomona Resident Promoting Children and Parents Album “Precious Child-Love Songs and Lullabies”

BY GEORGE J. DACRE Parents and children enjoying music together? That’s the dream of Mary Tainter McKenna, her husband and several musicians who worked together to create a “Precious Child-Love Songs and Lullabies.” Mary Tainter McKenna and her husband began looking for music they and their young daughter could enjoy together and decided over dinner […]