Rockland-Westchester Challenge highlights Labor Day Pearl River, coming off marvelous season, to meet rival Lakeland in featured game; Albertus Magnus, which hopes to surprise again, takes on Valhalla BY MARC MATURO It’s fitting perhaps that the Albertus Magnus High School and Pearl River High School boys soccer teams, both faced with different challenges this season, […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT A proposed bicycle bypass of Route 303 in Blauvelt is for the safety of both cyclists and motorists along the busy four-lane state highway, Councilman Paul Valentine clarified, in response to questions from several residents at the last Town Board meeting. Several residents asked whether the bypass was part of […]
New York State Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski, D-New City, has proposed legislation giving the state power to force schools to conform to fire safety guidelines and verify inspections. Schools must submit annual fire safety reports to the state Department of Education, but according to Zebrowski, there aren’t any consequences for schools that don’t comply. His new […]
BY JEREMY MOONEYHAM The Academy for Martial Arts welcomed the public to a free “Goal-setting seminar and bully-proof workshop” last Sunday in Orangetown. Owner and Senior Instructor Sensei Jackeline Harnett, a Kempo Karate and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist, along with Academy staff guided nearly 60 children between the ages four and 10 in drills and exercises […]
A compilation of news shorts from the past week Stolen Flowers from Army Vet’s Grave Flowers from a local Army veteran’s grave have been stolen twice in August. Ronald Croci died in March, and his daughter Cheryl Croci left flowers to mark his birthday. The flowers were stolen twice from the grave at the […]
Emergency responders were called to 10 Jay St. in Spring Valley, New York, after a carbon monoxide leak caused a tenant to collapse on June 2, 2016. On Wednesday Aug. 24 the Rockland Board of Health fined the building’s owner, Mattis Fried of The Rashby Trust, for four violations including lack of working carbon monoxide […]