HAVERSTRAW BRICK MUSEUM TO HOST TWO EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

  Looking Back in Time – Haverstraw The Haverstraw Brick Museum invites you to join us, Saturday, May 2, when Mrs. Corinne McGeorge, long-time Haverstraw resident, shares with you pictures of old-time Haverstraw. She will be taking us on a journey back in time to the days of Myers’ Supermarket, Mardoff’s Bakery, The Waldron Movie […]

Chairman Wolfe Acknowledges 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide

PRESS RELEASE  The Chairman of the Rockland County Legislature Alden H. Wolfe has issued a proclamation in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, a massacre that was carried out between the years 1915 and 1923 by the political party then in power in the Ottoman Empire, known as the Young Turks, determined to establish a new […]

A TRAVESTY TO ORANGETOWN RESIDENTS

To the Editor, Over the past few months nothing has become more evident then blatant disregard for our community and our residents!  Certain appointed and elected officials could care less about the common good of our town. They just want to please their friends. It appears that these friends are those who line their pockets by hiring their businesses or by giving them campaign donations. […]

Super Crane Makes First Lift and Placement for New Bridge

Super Crane Makes First Lift and Placement for New Bridge

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN Another page of bridge history took place last week when the I Lift NY fitted a 600-ton precast concrete pile cap on a set of piles. It was the super crane’s first of many placements and future lifts. “You have the tub that sitting over four piles that are […]

Why the Colorado Shooter Trial is so Important

BY DIANE DIMOND So here comes another headline-grabbing criminal trial. James Holmes, now 27, stands accused of murdering 12 and wounding 70 others in a mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in July 2012. Opening statements in the capital murder case are set for Monday. Ho-hum, you say? I beg to differ. This […]