Ed Day rings in New Year with Reaganesque inauguration BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Ed Day kicked off his first term as county executive on a high note New Year’s Day, with a well-attended inauguration and swearing-in ceremony at the Fire Emergency Services Center in Pomona. Several hundred were on hand as Day livened their spirits with […]
A new year brings new hopes, new dreams and new rules and regulations. The incandescent light bulb, first invented by Thomas Edison over a century ago, has officially seen the end of its long run, as new regulations implemented by Congress phase out the manufacture and import of the popular item. The regulations were imposed […]
FROM AIRMONT SCOOP After much deliberation, the mayor and trustees of Airmont voted this budget season to increase residents’ taxes by 4.05 percent, significantly higher than Mayor Boesch’s original proposed amount of 0.6 percent. The single dissenting vote was cast by Trustee Dennis Cohen, who felt that there were other ways they could find the […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Elmwood Playhouse on Park Street in Nyack is having a special concert of Les Miserables as a fund raiser January 19. Information at 845-353-1313 or elmwoodplayhouse.com. January 11 the date for “Coffee House” at the Nyack Village Theater at 94 Main Street Nyack. It will run through January 24. Tickets and […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Half –century doesn’t dim memories of aging batboy       Vietnam veteran Pete Barbieri , a Spring Valley resident since June 1990, sits quietly at a table in the back of a county deli, and turns back the clock, to his days as a batboy at the old Yankee Stadium. Now […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Not since the days when Wyatt Earp worked the Wild West wearing a badge and a gun has there been such good news for law enforcement. The number of federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers in the U.S. who died in the line of duty last year dropped to a total […]