STORY BY JANIE ROSMAN Car horns honked as people waved and pulled over in front of the bright yellow smiley balloons in front of the stand where Jordan, Brandon and Cameron Shorte smiled and waved back. “Lemonade! Lemonade!” they called to motorists driving by Triple Squeezed Lemonade. Several cars stopped; one woman pulled over and […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Beneath the blazing summer sun, police officers and volunteer firefighters from across Rockland County converged on Orangetown last week in response to an “accident” on the CSX rail line near Highview Avenue. This “accident” was part of a full-scale exercise to evaluate coordination, capabilities and response during a freight […]
PRESS RELEASE Ginsburg Development Companies (GDC) and Haverstraw village officials this week celebrated the completion of the final phase of the new Haverstraw Waterfront Promenade Park, a half-mile long village park adjacent to GDC’s Harbors-at-Haverstraw residential development. Martin Ginsburg, principal of GDC, turned over a symbolic key to Haverstraw Village Mayor Michael Kohut in a […]
Edited from Nyack Free Press; Photos from Kenny Flynn and Nyack Free Press ORANGEBURG – Twenty-five residents of the Cortwood Village senior housing complex in Orangeburg were displaced by a fire there Saturday night, July 25, with the American Red Cross called in to assist them with shelter. The residents were affected by a fire […]
Hoehmann, Borelli blame Gromack BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Clarkstown Republican leaders are not happy with Standard and Poor’s recent decision to downgrade the town’s credit rating and are pinning the blame on Supervisor Alexander Gromack, accusing him of years of fiscal mismanagement. Town Councilman George Hoehmann, who announced his candidacy for town supervisor […]
BY THE SPECTATOR, JOHN MALONEY It’s been a while since I appeared in print but I’ve been busy doing other things – like trying to come up with an idea for a column. I watched the Tony Award not too long ago and what struck me was the lack of original stories or plays. Where […]