SOUTH NYACK – A Bronx man, with Rockland County ties, was brought to Rockland County on Monday for arraignment in South Nyack Village Court on charges in connection with a 2014 incident at Nyack College. South Nyack-Grand View Police said Jamel Dean, 39, was officially charged with second-degree criminal trespassing and third-degree criminal trespassing, both misdemeanors, in connection with […]
BY BILL DEMAREST STONY POINT – Local police officers from Rockland County today welcomed home one of the two police officers who was wounded in a Bronx gun battle. Officers from the Stony Point Police Department were joined by other officers, including members of the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department, in greeting Police Officer Andrew Dossi, 30, of Stony […]
BY BILL DEMAREST NEW CITY – Friday was the last day in office for Rockland County’s economic development director, Calherbe Monel of Spring Valley, with County Executive Ed Day expected to soon name a replacement to the post. County officials said Monel left Day’s administration to seek other opportunities. Day has not yet announced who […]
Sloatsburg, NY – On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at approximately 10:11 p.m. State Police stopped a vehicle being driven by Svetlana Likhova, 49, of Palisades Park, NJ. It was determined that Likhova was impaired after she failed field sobriety tests and she was brought to SP Tarrytown for processing where she refused a breath test. […]
To the Editor, Living in Rockland County near two decades, I learned that those who would inflict environmental harm, seek out perceived weakest communities for that purpose. Enter, Anellotech and its proposed hazardous waste facility extension at the Pfizer Pearl River campus. It’s happened before. FAA and the airlines sought a massive flight-path over Rockland. […]
BY CHRIS FAULKNER The American Southwest is undergoing a spike in seismic activity. A new U.S. Geological Survey shows that a small basin on the New Mexico-Colorado border experienced 20 times more serious earthquakes between 2001 and 2011 than it had over the previous 30 years. There have been similar tremor spikes throughout the country. […]