BY DIANE DIMOND If you robbed a bank and got caught, you would go to jail. If you waited in the getaway car while your cohort robbed the bank, you would go to jail as an accomplice, right? Of course you would. That’s what the law mandates. So how come, after a bank stands mute […]
The Stony Point PBA will hold its fifth annual blood drive in memory of Jimmy McNicholas on Feb 24, 2014 from 3-9 p.m. at the RHO building in Stony Point. The PBA anticipates another year with solid turnout in honor of Jimmy, a lifetime North Rocklander who was killed by a drunk driver May 31, […]
Former County Legislator Daniel Castricone (R) has announced his candidacy for New York’s vacant 98th NY Assembly District. The seat had been occupied by Annie Rabbitt (R) until she was sworn in as Orange County clerk last week. “Albany’s never ending tax and spend mentality is driving our economy to ruin,” said Castricone. “We are hemorrhaging […]
Predictions in April 2013 of a visit by the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) to the Hudson Valley, NY turned out to be false, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking out the heavens again this evening, Thursday, January 9. A major solar flare set off Tuesday began radiating the Earth last night and is due to […]
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast announced the January 31 retirement of MTA Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut and the appointment of Joseph J. Giulietti as his successor. Permut has been a senior Metro-North executive since he helped found the railroad in 1983 and has served as president for more than […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Albany – Thanks to Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York might soon allow patients with severe illnesses the legal right to use medical marijuana to alleviate their symptoms, making it the 21st state to do so. Cuomo is expected to announce his plans to revive a medical marijuana law from 1980 during his […]