BY MICHAEL CAHILL Lowdown on Monday’s Village of Haverstraw board meeting The trustees of the Village of Haverstraw met Monday night at the village hall for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss and vote on several agenda items. The big item on the agenda was the plan by housing developer Ginsberg Development (GDC) to combine […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that more than 16,000 New Yorkers have used the Department of Motor Vehicle’s (DMV) new online voter registration service. The initiative, announced August 16, streamlines DMV services by allowing New Yorkers to register to vote, or update their address or party enrollment, through a secure online site. Now, […]
The Town of Clarkstown Police Department is currently investigating swastika graffiti found earlier this week drawn on the street outside of a house on Lady Godiva Way in the town of New City. Police responded to the scene around 7:30 a.m. on Monday following a call from a resident who saw the graffiti while getting […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL The North Rockland Central School District School Board, met for their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday evening in the auditorium of North Rockland High School. The board also met last week for a committee of the whole meeting, where items were discussed, but no action was taken. The big question of the night […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Four years later, the Hudson Valley is slowly recovering from the housing crisis, but more problems are on the horizon. Rising rents and the scarcity of affordable housing coupled with federal funding decreases, and an aging population demanding more alternative housing, will have municipalities squeezing even more out of their budgets in […]
BY DIANE DIMOND A recent Gallup poll has just concluded that 54 percent of Americans think the Transportation Security Administration is doing an “excellent” or “good” job at our airports. I don’t. I think the TSA is engaged in a nationwide effort to cavalierly and routinely strip travelers of their dignity. I think in some […]