FROM STATE POLICE THRUWAY PATROL Greenburgh, NY – On May 2, 2014 around 2:30 a.m., State Police in Tarrytown received a report of two subjects attempting to climb the Tappan Zee Bridge. Troopers, along with the assistance of the Nyack Fire Department and New York State Thruway Authority, conducted a search of the area. Minutes later, […]
STONY POINT – A minor zoning dispute has blown up into a drama between Stony Point Town Engineer Kevin Maher, Chief Building & Zoning Inspector William Sheehan, and the Town’s Zoning Board, with Maher claiming the Zoning Board is ignoring a safety hazard in the town. In an Article 78 filing submitted to the NY […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE NEW CITY, NY — Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Drainage Agency Chairman Charles H. Vezzetti today announced that construction on the Pascack Brook Bypass Culvert project in Spring Valley will require closing Union Road at the intersection of Stonehouse Drive and King Terrace on Monday, May 5, 2014. The road will […]
Report filed by Clarkstown Police Dept: On Thursday May 1, 2014 at approximately 11:50 p.m., the Clarkstown Police Department responded to Lake Rd and N. Conger Ave in Congers for a report of a motor vehicle accident. A witness stated that a vehicle had struck a parked car on Lake Rd. and fled the scene. […]
COLUMN BY DIANE DIMOND It’s clearly time to bring back firing squads. If we’re going to keep carrying out the death penalty in this country and if we are going to continue to grandly insist that they are “humane executions” then only a return to a firing squad will insure a speedy and relatively pain-free […]
Off-duty paramedic charged with hit and run on bicyclist; victim suffered collapsed lung, shattered hip and broken ribs BY DYLAN SKRILOFF His duty is to respond to emergencies, but according to Clarkstown Police, paramedic Jonathan Fried, 49, of Chestnut Ridge, caused an emergency and then fled the scene illegally. Fried is facing a Class A […]