Ramapo passes PUD town wide

During their May 28 session the Ramapo Town Board  adopted a new mechanism to encourage development in Rockland’s most populated town.  Resolution 10323 will allow Planned Unit Development, known as PUD, developers to increase the housing on 10-acre-plus contiguous properties in unincorporated Ramapo, excluding the Northeast Corridor area, which has its own PUD zoning.  While […]

Back to Back Blaze: Nyack faces two apartment fires in a single afternoon

Back to Back Blaze: Nyack faces two apartment fires in a single afternoon

Firefighters from across Rockland and Westchester County responded to multiple fires in Nyack on Tuesday as two unrelated incidents resulted in the evacuation of multiple housing units across the village. At 11 a.m. first responders were called to the sixth floor of the West Shore Towers apartment complex at 103 Gedney Street after receiving reports […]

Lawler faces divided crowd in Clarkstown

Mike Lawler knew he was in for a rough night. During last Sunday’s town hall, the first of four assemblies planned throughout his district, Lawler faced boos, jeers, sporadic applause, and more than a few unsolicited questions from outraged audience members demanding that the congressman take a hard line against the Trump Administration.  Standing in […]

No Two Masters: Religion and Trump

By: Joseph Dunnigan In March, I saw a red car going very fast and very erratic on Interstate 87.  As the car passed by me, I noticed it had pasted to the driver’s side window the image of President Donald Trump.  The image was in such a way that it looked as if he, the […]

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