7TH ANNUAL BLAUVELT SONS OF ITALY ITALIAN SEPTEMBER 15 – 18 The Rockland Lodge 2176 of the Sons of Italy will host the seventh annual Blauvelt Sons of Italy Italian Feast, Carnival at Tappan Masonic Park Fair Grounds September 15 – 18. The event draws thousands of people from around the tri-state area during the […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Lana Benim, Pys.D is bringing an educational-based daycare to New City’s former St. Augustine school building and it has brought the attention of parish members and townspeople who are concerned the former catholic school will be turned into a Yeshiva or a private school seeking taxpayer money. The town of Clarkstown is […]
A traveling slip n’ slide that consumes entire downs is due to make a stop in the Village of Nyack next Saturday, August 27. The Salt Lake City-based attraction known as “Slide the City” is 1,000 feet long and will travel along Nyack village’s downward slope on Main St. between Midland and Franklin Avenue. It’s […]
BY KATHY KAHN North Rockland’s Central School District has made all the cuts it can make without hurting students, and teachers have given up portions of their raises to help defray the cost of the Mirant reassessment settlement made in 2007 and the subsequent downgrade of Bowline’s assessment again in 2014. When the Bowline power […]
PRESS STATEMENT FROM ASSEMBLYMAN JAMES SKOUFIS The Environmental Facilities Corp (EFC) recently announced its second round of NYS Water Grant Program awardees. The single largest beneficiary in the Hudson Valley was the Village of Kiryas Joel which received $23.7 million for its pipeline project: $20.7 million in low-finance loans and $3 million in grants. This […]
BY BILL DEMAREST NYACK – Orangetown police are seeking witnesses to an early-morning shooting that left a 26-year-old man wounded from a shooting at the Nyack Plaza housing complex in downtown Nyack. Police said the man was shot in the leg at about 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, with the man telling investigators he was wounded as he […]