Artists show the ordinary can be extraordinary and the ugly, beautiful STORY AND PHOTOS BY LILY BETJEMAN Tinkers, Artists, Innovators: Bricolage might justify a hoarder’s conviction that junk serves a purpose, but a deeper look reveals a playful inquiry into the meaning of objects. What happens when cast-off possessions are re-purposed with a new intention? […]
During Tuesday’s snow storm at approximately 4:35 p.m. a driver careened off snowy College Road at its intersection with Viola Road in Ramapo and ran into a fire hydrant, causing a 25 foot high explosive stream of water. As you can imagine, the frosty temps immediately turned the burst hydrant into an ice machine, and […]
Approximately 2 percent of Wyoming’s population reside in the small city of Riverton in the heart of the state. That’s about 10.5K residents. Now, if a mandate of the Environment Protection Agency goes forward, those residents, along with others within a 1 million acre area, will officially be living on an Indian reservation. In a […]
$137 Billion, 1.7 percent over last year BY KATHY KAHN Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday unveiled his proposed 2014-2015 budget, which contains, among many other proposals, a property tax freeze for homeowners and a call to the over 1,000 towns and villages to consolidate services to save taxpayer dollars. Cuomo initially introduced the new budget […]
At the monthly meeting of the Orange County Democratic Committee, Krystal Serrano officially announced her candidacy for the 98th Assembly District seat vacated by Annie Rabbitt when she was inaugurated as Orange County clerk. Serrano has a background in economic development, job creation, and managed healthcare.
BY BARRY WARNER On Sunday, January 12, 2014, Suffern High School hosted the FIRST Tech Challenge Lower Hudson Valley Regional Qualifying Robotics Championship that was free and open to the public. Twenty-one teams comprised of students in grades seven to 12, applied math and engineering skills to build and program robots that competed head-to-head. At […]