The Villages of Haverstraw, Spring Valley, and West Haverstraw, along with the Rockland County Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Places Healthier Corner Store program, and participating village corner stores, are promoting “Try It-You Might Like It!” events at local food markets in July. “We encourage residents to take advantage of these events to sample healthier […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – “The Wizard Of Oz” opens at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford July 31 and runs through September 31. Tickets and view upcoming shows at www.broadwaytheatre.com or call 914-592-2222. “Mary Poppins” continues on mainstage. A tribute to Franki Valli and the Four Seasons August 2 – Rockland Shakespeare Company presents “All’s […]
BY ROBERT P. ASTORINO New York state stands to reap billions from the fines paid by French banking giant BNP Paribas to settle money-laundering charges. The one-time windfall should go to address our urgent capital-construction needs, including the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement — and to undoing a decades-old fiscal gimmick that continues to hamstring the […]
The Rockland County chapter of The Compassionate Friends invites families to the 23nd annual Children’s Memorial Day. It will take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 14 at the Children’s Memorial Garden in Veterans Memorial Park, in Orangeburg, New York. The service, celebrating the lives of children, grandchildren and siblings who are no longer […]
Representatives from the ARCs of Rockland, Putnam, Westchester and Orange Counties celebrated the 65th anniversary of NYSARC, the state-wide umbrella organization serving people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. The group met on Bear Mountain Bridge, July 3. Participants affixed the chapter names to the NYSARC flag in a symbolic gesture marking NYSARC’s broad and […]
Patricia Maloney-Titland and Christopher Plummer are at it again, continuing a Rockland County Shakespearean tradition they spawned way back in 1998 when “Romeo and Juliet” was staged in the courtyard at Rockland Community College. This year two shows by William the great are being featured: “All’s Well that Ends Well” showing July 18 and 20 […]