STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN As coals heated on the barbeque and ears of shucked corn, burgers and other picnic fare waited their turn on the grill, Stony Point’s Republican candidates met with the public at a barbeque Wednesday evening. Town Councilman Jim Monaghan — running on the Republican, Conservative, Independent, Working Parties and Reform […]
Photos by Tom McGuire Traffic stopped for over half an hour at the Bear Mountain Bridge as a parade of Model T cars marked the crossing’s 90th anniversary.
On Wednesday, a coalition of eight Orange County municipalities executed a Municipal Cooperation Agreement that authorized the New York City Law Firm of Bryan Cave to commence litigation challenging the 507- and 164-acre annexation petitions to annex territory from the Town of Monroe to the Village of Kiryas Joel, and to challenge the environmental review with respect to […]
PRESS RELEASE The Village of Nyack will reclaim its oldest Dutch sandstone house from a bank following a complicated negotiation led by the newly-formed non-profit group, the John Green Preservation Coalition. The 1817 house at the foot of Main Street has been donated by Wells Fargo to the coalition, which plans to restore it, and […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Legionnaires’ disease weighed heavily on the minds of New Yorkers this summer. An outbreak in the South Bronx claimed 12 lives and sickened more than 120 people. Here in Rockland County, three people were felled by the potentially deadly respiratory illness. In response to the Bronx outbreak, the New […]
Op-ed by Jerry Donnellan Director, Veterans Services Agency of Rockland County Over the years I’ve worked with the VA both personally and professionally, and I have to say I have met a lot of wonderful people. I’ve also met some real knuckleheads. Unfortunately, in a bureaucracy the “one bad apple” theory comes in spades. One of […]