In Form: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics

BY BARBARA GALAZZO Rockland Center for the Arts [RoCA] looks at its legacy of the past with Henry Varnum Poor who was a huge part of the RoCA in its formative years. Poor was a leader in the Contemporary world of ceramics after World War II when experimentation and self expression were groundbreaking in ceramics. […]

Lalor Calls on Arlington Fire Board to Bring Back American Flags

PRESS RELEASE Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – East Fishkill) is calling on the Arlington Fire District Board of Commissioners to rescind their order to remove American flags flying from the back of the district’s fire trucks. “When I was on the front lines in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the first time […]

Ulster County mother indicted in bathtub drowning of infant daughter

KINGSTON – An Ulster County grand jury indicted a Marlboro woman in connection with the drowning death of her 10-month-old daughter in her bathtub. Kayla Pagan, 26, faces a charge of felony criminally negligent homicide and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child. According to the State Police investigation, the drowning occurred in the evening […]

Jaffee Statement on Appointment of East Ramapo Monitor, Charles Szuberla

PRESS STATEMENT FROM ELLEN JAFFEE “I applaud State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia for the appointment of Charles Szuberla as East Ramapo Central School District Monitor. In making this appointment the Commissioner and (SED) recognizes and is actively responding to the critical and positive role the Monitors played on the ground during the 2015-16 school […]

RIP TIMONEY

RIP TIMONEY

The members of the Ramapo Police Department lost a member of their extended family this week: Chief John Timoney. Chief Timoney was a former Town of Ramapo resident who served in the NYPD as the first deputy commissioner and eventually moved on to become commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department.  After that he served as […]

BENIM ACADEMY DAYCARE IN NEW CITY IS NOT A YESHIVA

BENIM ACADEMY DAYCARE IN NEW CITY IS NOT A YESHIVA

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 […]