HILLCREST – Around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 12 firefighters were dispatched to 2 Orchard Street in Hillcrest for a structure fire. Firefighters arrived on scene and found an active working fire that engulfed most of the residential home. Five fire departments arrived on scene to provide mutual aid. No residents or firefighters were injured. […]
NEW CITY – The State Comptroller’s Office has given its approval to Rockland County Executive Edwin Day’s 2020 proposed budget. The state comptroller’s office reviewed the proposed $729.9 million spending plan, which stays under the state property tax cap while investing in critical infrastructure improvements, funding new state mandates and providing for the future of […]
WEST NYACK – The Clarkstown Detective Bureau has announced that a joint law enforcement operation with the New York City Police Department and Queens District Attorney’s Office in the month of September netted over 15 kilos of controlled substances – worth an estimated street value of $2.4 million – leading to the arrest of a […]
Performing at the Suffern Free Library, 210 Lafayette Avenue, Suffern, NY–Wednesday, November 20th at 2:00 p.m. Kyle Carey’s unique trans-Atlantic fusion of music includes influences of the American Folk Anthology, the Appalachian poetry of Louise McNeill, and the traditional music of Ireland, Cape Breton and Scotland. The results are well described by Jeremy Searle of […]
Carolyn Fish, a nationally and internationally known leader in the fight against domestic violence and a founder of a shelter for women in Rockland County, has died. The Haverstraw resident was 71. Services will be held on Sunday morning at 9:30 at Beth Am Temple in Pearl River. Fish was the shelter’s executive director for […]
The Rockland Boulders announced last week that manager Kevin Baez will return for the 2020 season. In his first season as Boulders manager, Baez led the team to their sixth consecutive playoff appearance in the Can-Am League with a 43-50 record. Next summer, the Boulders and four other Can-Am League teams, head into the new […]