BY KATHY KAHN With six more weeks until Election Day, many up for re-election have been out and about, including Sen. Bill Larkin (R/C-Cornwall-on-Hudson-39th District), who was the main event at Stony Point Councilman Tom Basile’s house on September 28. Larkin welcomed several of his longtime supporters and Republican allies, including NYS Chair of the Republican Party […]
Haverstraw’s 400th Anniversary Committee presented “Rendezvous with Treason” at the Haverstraw Elks this past Sunday. In this play, reenactors Gary Petaine and Sean Grady brought Benedict Arnold and Major Andre to life in an entertaining, interactive, and dramatic program. The attendees spent an afternoon with our country’s most notorious antihero, Benedict Arnold and his partner […]
Candidate for the 97th Assembly District Joseph Chabot has called on his opponent Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee to donate the $3,800 she has received from the Friends of Sheldon Silver in 2008 to a charity that benefits the students of the East Ramapo School District. Sheldon Silver, the former longtime speaker of the Assembly, was convicted […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert this week remind residents to protect themselves by getting a flu vaccine. The flu is a serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to […]
AccuWeather reports it will feel like an extended winter for those living from the northern Plains to the eastern U.S., as cold and snowy conditions stretch into spring 2017. Meanwhile, drier and milder weather will focus on the majority of the southern half of the nation. The Southeast may mark the exception as a chilly […]
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. on Wednesday designated Nanuet Senior High School as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2016. Nanuet Senior High School is being recognized as an “Exemplary High Performing School” as measured by performance on assessments referenced against national norms. Nanuet High is among 329 public and private elementary, middle, and high schools […]