BY JANIE ROSMAN What began as a peaceful rally against the East Ramapo school board last Saturday erupted into a heated cursing argument involving police. Advocacy group Get Up, Stand Up: East Ramapo and their children were demonstrating at Spring Valley Memorial Park, calling for school board member Bernard Charles to resign. When he and […]
Thursday’s actions by the New York State Department of Health represent a giant step toward the successful sale of Summit Park. Now that Sympaticare’s licenses have been approved for both the hospital and the nursing care center, the Rockland County Health Facilities Corporation (the LDC) is free to move forward with the Purchase and Sale […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Sometimes out of tragedy comes triumph. Such is the case for Julie Pendley of Fayetteville, Arkansas. In May, her cousin Ben Baber and his best friend Cody Parrick went missing. The two 20-year-olds had driven from their homes in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, to attend a concert in Pryor, about an hour-and-a-half away. That […]
Alice is a 2½-year-old female terrier mix. She was surrendered to Hi Tor Animal Care Center due to landlord issues. Sweet Alice has been at the shelter waiting for her forever home for over a year now. She is house trained, crate trained and already spayed. Alice should be an only pet in the house. […]
PHOTOS FROM “ROCKLAND FIRES” FB SITE A truck flipped over at Short Clove Rd. for the third time in 14 months on Tuesday. Rockland Fires Facebook site tracks local emergency activity and made note that history “repeats itself” on Short Clove Rd. this Tuesday. The time-stamp of the incidents can be seen at the bottom […]
STORY AND PHOTO BY JAMES BERNICK With its unlined, pothole ridden parking lot, islands of unmowed grass, and postapocalyptic accenting of overgrown shrubbery, a casual oberserver could easily mistake the Airmont Shopping Plaza (located at the intersection of Route 59 and Airmont Road behind the Airmont Diner) for an abandoned building. This initial impression would […]