WHEN WILL THE SILENCE BE BROKEN?

To the Editor, A recent prayer request in a small religious magazine brought my own urgent concern home to me. “You can imagine the stress both physical and mental,” the writer commented as she described “moving slowly” out of the family home where she and her brothers and sisters had lived since 1957. In the […]

FOUNDING FATHER: Chief Scurti, founder of the Stony Point Police Department, honored with James V. Stewart Distinguished Career Service Award

FOUNDING FATHER: Chief Scurti, founder of the Stony Point Police Department, honored with James V. Stewart Distinguished Career Service Award

STORY SUBMITTED BY THE HAVERSTRAW ELKS Chief Stephen Scurti, the founding chief of the Stony Point Police Department, was honored with the James V. Stewart Distinguished Career Service Award on the 42nd Law Enforcement Recognition Night held in March by the Haverstraw Elks. This is Scurti’s story, which is also the story of the founding […]

Thank You Gardner!

Thank You Gardner!

Suffern resident honored for decades of service to village, 100th birthday Gardner Fairfield Watts received Andrew C. Haggerty Award for Outstanding Village Employee at the Suffern Village Board meeting on April 7. Watts, who celebrated his 100th birthday on April 3, has been village resident for 50 years, worked as a history teacher at Suffern […]

PUDDIN’ DON’T

PUDDIN’ DON’T

Puddin’ Don’t is a creation of Jake Barlow, inspired by all manner of silliness, like Berkeley Breathed’s Bill the Cat, Chuck Norris Facts, The movie Machete, and the great Marty Feldman. Puddin’ Don’t can be found daily online at www.puddindont.com.

Al Sharpton Sets Terrible Example by Hugging Vote Fraudster

Al Sharpton Sets Terrible Example by Hugging Vote Fraudster

BY CHERYLYN HARLEY LEBON A New Visions Commentary After he has made such a spectacle of himself in professing that voter protection laws are unnecessary, it was unsettling for Al Sharpton to publicly hug a convicted perpetrator of vote fraud at a public event. Yet, there was Sharpton — hugging Melowese Richardson on March 20. […]