The impressive academic career of West Nyack’s Joshua Henriques continues. Henriques recently graduated from Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia, where he was named valedictorian with a 4.581 GPA and won two of its most prestigious honors: The MacArthur Award and the United States Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award. He was accepted to the United […]
To the Editor, New York is stuck. Free New York. New York needs voting reform to bring voting procedures into the 21st century. Once we were mostly farmers and stayed in one place. Now we are away from home often for reasons beyond our control–employment, education, child care, care of an ill friend or relative, […]
CRIME REPORT RAMAPO PD ROBBERY/ASSAULT Tuesday morning, June 5 around 10:15 a.m. Ramapo PD responded to the intersection of Route 59 and North Airmont Road for a reported disabled vehicle. Upon arrival, the officer determined that the vehicle was not disabled and that in fact it had been involved in a motor vehicle accident. When […]
Rockland firm to revamp 99-year-old racetrack in Orange County The oldest continually operating dirt track in the U.S. recently kicked off its 99th year. Orange County Fair Speedway began operations in 1919 and will now undergo new renovations. A Nanuet-based development and promotion company, Orange Motorsport & Entertaining LLC, is taking on the project. The […]
BY JOE KUHN This week the Rockland County Legislature voted to confirm the appointment of their newest member, Itamar Yeger, the executive assistant district attorney and chief of appeals for the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office. Yeger, a former New Hempstead trustee and Ramapo councilman, will be filling the seat vacated by legislator Ilan Schoenberger […]