VFW Ladies Auxiliary of Piermont gave $400 in supermarket gift cards to the veterans now living in Phase I of Homes for Heroes, which is building affordable housing for homeless and disabled veterans. Homes for Heroes is built on Camp Shanks, in Tappan, N.Y., from which over 1.3 million GI’s left to fight in Europe […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA A movement to re-name the new Tappan Zee Bridge to honor Purple Heart recipients is underway in the Lower Hudson Valley, gathering both debate and support as veterans and their advocates petition Albany to dedicate the bridge to those wounded in America’s armed conflicts. Now, that campaign has spread to Rockland. County […]
HUMOR BY THE SPECTATOR, JOHN MALONEY About this time every year, I dust off a column I wrote many years ago for the paper. In fact, it appeared on July 11, 1985. Some of you weren’t even born yet! I’ve added to it from time to time and with baseball entering the heart of the […]
RAMAPO — More than 1,400 students received degrees today from Rockland Community College at its 54th Commencement Ceremony in the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse on Sunday. The 1,443 total graduates include the classes of May ’14 (846), December ’13 (293) and August ’13 (304). ABC Chief Correspondent Byron Pitts, an award winning journalist, news anchor and […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Author Evan Smith delves deeply into the Bible, and Catholic and Evangelical beliefs in this “heaven-sent comedy,” as Penguin’s artistic director Joe Brancato describes “Savannah Disputation.” Director Mark Shanahan gets the most out of a stellar cast that includes Susan Pellegrino as Mary and Tina Johnson as her sister, Margaret, both […]
PARK RIDGE, NJ. March 24, 2014—Wells Fargo Advisors has for the seventh consecutive year, designated Eric Kohlmeier, managing director – Investments, as a member of the firm’s Premier Advisors Program, a distinction that reflects Eric’s achievement of professional success by meeting or exceeding Wells Fargo Advisors’ high standards as measured by one or more of […]