BY DIANE DIMOND Let’s talk about the U.S. prison system, shall we? By that I mean the whole shebang: prisons run by the federal government, state jails, local jails and juvenile correctional institutions. And let’s toss in immigration detention facilities, military prisons and the 76 jails on Native American lands. All together, the United States […]
Keith Cornell, candidate for Rockland County Surrogate Court, has released the following statement: “I have become aware that certain elements in our county have been issuing bigoted and anti-Semitic statements using social media and excerpts from a local newspaper regarding my opponent in the race for surrogate. “I am denouncing this action in the strongest […]
PHOTOS BY AARON MOELLER BY DYLAN SKRILOFF MARLBORO – About 500 music lovers camped out on makeshift fairgrounds setup at the Hampton Rd., Marlboro property of “Big Lee” Mazzola for the eighth annual Mazzstock festival last weekend. Hundreds of other attendees came and went over the course of the three-day festival. The Hudson Valley’s annual […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN The officer must have overheard the teenagers talking. “The Batmobile’s over there,” He said, indicating Cedar Street. No sooner did the Nyack Chamber of Commerce’s Sixth Annual Classic Car Night begin than a small crowd gathered around the familiar black-and-orange car. Despite threat of rain from late July […]