Stony Point Pack 17 Cub Scout troop is having its annual Pinewood Derby event. Scouts from Haverstraw, Stony Point and Theills, over 70 kids and their families in all, will get together Saturday, March 22, 9:30 a.m. at Kirkbride Hall, 5 Patriot Hills Ln, Stony Point to race model cars. May the best car win!
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NYACK – The second and final phase of an effort by Orange & Rockland to clean a section of Nyack marred by coal tar contamination is expected to be finished by the end of 2014. As per a 1996 agreement with the State Department of Environmental Conservation, Orange & Rockland will complete […]
An Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held at the Pearl River Hook and Ladder Co., where Nanuet resident Troy Hansen of BSA Troop #33 attained the rank of Eagle Scout, a distinction earned by only 4% of all Boy Scouts nationwide. The event was well attended by family, friends, elected officials and fellow scouts. […]
Hasidic men plead guilty in divorce coercion plot Two brothers in an eight-member Hasidic gang pled guilty last Monday to conspiracy charges related to the coercion of other ultra-orthodox men for the purpose of obtaining religious divorces. Moshe and Avrohom Goldstein pled guilty in a U.S. District Court in Trenton, admitting to working with six […]
By Harry Waitzman Clarkstown Poet Laureate Spring, where are you hiding? I hear the Moon sneeze and Mars has a cold. Winter, why are you sleeping under a worm’s warm stomach, in the ear of a mouse? Move! Snow and sleet will soon turn to leaf, melting in rivers at maple’s feet. Ants leap puddles. […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM CER While fewer than half of state charter school laws in the United States earn above-average grades according to The Center for Education Reform’s (CER) 15th Edition of Charter School Laws Across the States: Rankings & Scorecard released today, New York lands in the top ten, ranking 6th out of 42 states […]