BY KENNETH SHOULER It’s 1 p.m. on a sweltering Friday in June. Despite weather suitable to outdoor activities, it’s cool and refreshing inside of Diamond Jim’s Billiards and Pub, at 400 Market Street in Nanuet. Eight of the room’s ten Brunswick four-and-a-half-by-nine tables are already rented. Many of the players are older, more deliberate in their play, and efficient […]
BY JERRY DONNELLAN Veterans Service Agency of Rockland County As a kid in Nyack right after WWII, we used to watch the Memorial Day parades go by. Right up in front were the WWII veterans in their 20s and full of pride in crisp, new uniforms. In the next echelon were the WWI vets not quite as […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Tuesday night over 300 residents came to support Ramapo Central School District’s (RCSD) decision to limit funding for private school busing to one arrival time and one dismissal time. The rural village of Hillburn, tucked between Sloatsburg and the New York State Thruway, had its small streets lined with cars on several […]
Senator Bill Larkin (R,C,I-39th District) will present a $250,000 check to Rockland Community College as part of an announcement that he has secured a $250,000 State and Municipal (SAM) funding grant to help make needed renovations and improvements to RCC’s Fieldhouse. The grant funding secured by Senator Larkin will go toward fully renovating the locker […]
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Wednesday announced that Jiwan Coleman, age 16, of 31 Seabring Street, Spring Valley, New York has been arraigned on a three count indictment • One count of Murder in the Second Degree, a class “A” Felony (intentional) • One count of Murder in the Second Degree, a class “A” […]
A local senior lost control of his vehicle backing out of the New City Burger King parking lot and caused residents of an adjacent home one heck of a headache. At approximately 6:20 p.m. Tuesday night the Clarkstown Police Department responded to 11 Third St. in New City, a commercial and residential building, for a […]