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 […]
From Gas Buddy Average retail gasoline prices in New York have fallen 3.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.80/g Monday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. This compares with the national average that has fallen 5.4 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.60/g, according […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Westchester Broadway Theatre will be showcasing “Backwards and in Heels,” a musical about Ginger Roger’s public and private life, from August 13 – September 20. The musical first premiered at Florida Stage in 2007 and sold out its entire run. What makes this adaption so remarkable is Jeremy Benton. Benton, who […]
The Ramapo Police department is currently conducting an investigation into the causes of a fire, which destroyed a pick-up truck and trailer. At about 3 a.m., August 12 the department was advised, by a NYSP Trooper who was turning around in the Provident Bank Park lot, of a vehicle fire in the parking lot. Arriving […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day In 1854, Dr. John Snow tracked down the cause of deadly cholera outbreaks in London to contaminated water and convinced local officials to remove the handle from a well’s water pump to end the threat. Fifty years later, an intrepid New York City Health Department epidemiologist named George Soper […]