BY CHERYL SLAVIN PHOTOS BY TOM McGUIRE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED “Palisades welcomes two new residents,” bird watcher and enthusiast David Gottlieb wrote for Palisadesny.com in 2012. “A pair of bald eagles have built a huge nest on an old white pine in Sneden’s Landing overlooking the Hudson River. They can be seen soaring above the […]
Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe has announced the County Legislature’s standing committee chairs for 2014. Legislator Michael Grant has been reappointed for a second term to chair the Budget and Finance Committee; Legislator Ilan Schoenberger was reappointed to chair the Planning and Public Works Committee, a task he performed in 2013, 2003 and […]
Several members of the Conklin family donated a clock to the Stony Point Ambulance Corps in memory of Lucien Conklin, former Stony Point town supervisor. Members of the Conklin lineage have lived in Rockland County, including Stony Point, since the 1600s.
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Spartans run to success, set conference crown as goal The Spartans of St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, whose next stop is the Armory in upper Manhattan on January 18 for the NYU Saturday Night Shootout, are keeping their eyes on the ultimate prize this track and field season. “We’re […]
From www.gasbuddy.com GasBuddy, the nation’s leading gas price app, congratulates the top 25 lowest priced retail gasoline offerings, which together saved consumers millions of dollars on their yearly gasoline fill-ups in 2013. Each year, GasBuddy combs through nearly 35 million individual gasoline prices and compares each brand’s pump offering (by zip code) to the average […]
BY BARRY WARNER The Youth for Hospice ‘Hair-Cut-A-Thon’ fundraiser took place at numerous beauty parlors throughout Rockland County on Sunday January 12, 2014. Youth for Hospice is a volunteer group coordinated by local high school students and its mission is to create fundraisers to benefit United Hospice of Rockland which provides care, comfort and an […]