The Mountain House, Sparkill, NY By Col. Andrew J. Smith My favorite pizza place of all time will always be Annie’s Snack Shack which was in Stony Point for 55 years. It is so hard to believe that it is gone for nearly ten years already. But lacking Annie’s my favorite now is the Mountain […]
Air Quality Advisory for Thursday The New York State Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation have issued an air quality health advisory for the Metropolitan New York City region, including Rockland County, for Thursday July 7, 2016. These advisories are issued when levels of outdoor pollution, which consists of ozone or fine particulate […]
Indian Point Unit 2 automatically and safely shut down Wednesday around 9:30 a.m. The automatic shutdown occurred at the same time technicians were testing electrical systems that are designed to automatically shut down the reactor if needed, Entergy said. The exact cause is under investigation. There was no release of radioactivity and no effect on public or worker health […]
BY AARON MOELLER Hazel stares upon the down at Tallman Mountain State Park
By Victoria Tanner The Rockland County Legislature unanimously passed a bond resolution on Tuesday July 5, 2016 to finance The Squires Gate/Lake Antrim Area flood mitigation project. Following Hurricane Floyd in 1999, residents of Squires Gate have been pushing their local and state government officials to protect them from flood damage. Two residents and the […]
By County Executive Ed Day Now, a full nine months after I proposed the sale of the Sain Building as part of this year’s budget, the Rockland County Legislature has finally taken action. A vote at Tuesday’s meeting of the Legislature essentially approved my plan. But with caveats that unnecessarily make the sale harder […]