Orange County man arrested for attempted robbery in Stony Point

Orange County man arrested for attempted robbery in Stony Point

BY MICHAEL RICONDA An Orange County resident was arrested in Stony Point on February 1 and accused with drunkenly attempting to rob and beat another man in a local stationary store. According to Stony Point Police, Robert F. Sweeney, a resident of Warwick, NY and a former North Rockland resident, allegedly accosted a shopper in […]

County Executive Joins Catholic Schools Week Festivities

County Executive Joins Catholic Schools Week Festivities

By Jeannine Rippa     On Thursday morning, Jan. 30, 2014, Rockland County Executive Ed Day was named principal for the day of St. Paul Catholic School in Valley Cottage, NY. Ed Day visited with the children in almost all of the classrooms. As principal, Ed Day made an announcement, on the loud speaker to […]

Happy 100 Years to Catherine Seminara, a Haverstraw Original

Happy 100 Years to Catherine Seminara, a Haverstraw Original

Dozens of family members and friends of Catherine Seminara gathered together at Pasta Cucina in Stony Point Sunday to celebrate a long life well-lived. Catherine turned 100 this week and is still going strong. Catherine, who moved to West Haverstraw from Pennsylvania at age 16 in 1930 and married Fred D. Seminara in 1934, lived […]

Analysis Identifies Region’s Most Dangerous Roads for Walking

Analysis Identifies Region’s Most Dangerous Roads for Walking

PRESS RELEASE FROM TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN A new analysis from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a non-profit policy watchdog organization, finds that in the three years from 2010 to 2012, 683 pedestrians were killed on roads in the twelve downstate New York counties. Overall, 1,236 pedestrians were killed in the tri-state region during the time period, […]

Another Year of Polar Plunging!!!

Another Year of Polar Plunging!!!

  They’ve done it again! The boys over on Hoover Dr. rallied hundreds of Stony Pointers and other local folks to take a February dive into the Hudson, all in the name of helping out a youngster named Olivia Barron. It’s the tradition that started in 1999 when John Corcoran, John Fox and other wild […]

I Love You…You’re Perfect…Now Change!

The play with the unforgettable title will be featured next week by the Rockland Theatre Company Next week “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” is being presented by the Rockland Theatre Company at the Haverstraw Youth Theater, 64 New Main Street in the Central Presbyterian Church. Producer Barry Sabino says the musical comedy is […]