PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe says the possible Legoland project is worth considering, but that all aspects must be fully reviewed. He opposes public acquisition of a commercial property that is generating taxes benefitting the community. “Economic development is critical to the long term success of Rockland and so is ensuring […]
BY DIANE DIMOND I wrote about the plight of 94-year-old Betty Winstanley, who resides at the Masonic Village retirement home in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. She doesn’t want to live there anymore. Now that her husband of 72 years is gone, she longs to move to a care home closer to her two children in Maryland. But […]
Ella Signs her name at the Top of the Mountain Photos taken by Aaron Moeller at Kakiat State Park
BY BILL DEMAREST SUFFERN – A New Jersey man was charged with choking a his girlfriend in a Suffern home, according to Suffern police. Police said the 22-year-old Lyndhurst, N.J., man was accused of second-degree strangulation on Monday after an investigation of an incident in which he victim said she was choked to the point where she almost […]
An arriving passenger at John F. Kennedy International Airport tried to ‘sneak’ past U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers, but was stopped in his tracks. On February 24, CBP officers stopped Mr. Perez Beltran, a United States citizen, who arrived on a flight from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. During the course of the inspection, […]
New City fifth grader Casey Zuckerman presented a “use blinker” traffic sign to Supervisor George Hoehmann and Councilwoman Valerie Moldow this week. Casey designed the sign to encourage drivers to use their blinkers and worked with Highway Superintendent Frank DiZenzo (pictured) to have the sign made. Casey came up with the idea for the school district’s Invention […]