BY GEORGE J. DACRE “Love, Loss and What I Wore” at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack is is a hilarious piece of theatre. A collaboration of Nora and Delia Ephron based on a book by Ilene Beckerman featuring various skits (there are 28 scenes), the cast delivers some very funny observations of their lives and loves […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Responding to bipartisan calls for reform and concern from Americans, President Obama announced on January 17 that he would pursue reforms for the National Security Agency. Obama promised to set limits on the retention and collection of data from foreign nationals in friendly nations, appoint senior officials to oversee, coordinate and implement […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With an electrifying performance by Kristin-Leigh Nicholson, a second grade teacher at Montebello School in Suffern, this 418th production at the famed Tom France Theatre at Antrim Playhouse is theatre at its best. It is a bit long (three and a half hours, with two intermissions) but for area theatergoers, I […]
Cardiac care at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center is in the top 10 percent in the nation as measured by lowest risk-adjusted complications, according to a new report from Healthgrades, the leading online resource that helps consumers search, compare and connect with physicians and hospitals. The report, American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2014: Healthgrades Report to […]
Common Core and rule change in the middle of the game Part 4 of a 4 Part Series BY CHERYL SLAVIN Imagine yourself deeply engrossed in the longest game of Monopoly in your life, busily buying and selling properties with all the élan of the most distinguished real estate tycoons when suddenly at your door […]
At the January 14 Stony Point Town Board meeting, the board hired Robert Bertrand as a new police officer, the first of at least two and possibly three new hires. Bertrand is the son of a current town officer. Two officers who had been on disability were retired from the force in 2013, and the […]