Coils and Springs

BY HARRY WAITZMAN, Poet laureate of Clarkstown My poems spring from nowhere And everywhere, from the genes if my body and brains inherited from a father and mother born In Stepin, a small village in Poland, best described as a shtetle of a thousand souls who labored through seven hundred years of tool and a […]

Stony Point Town Board Considers Volunteer Emergency Services Resolution; Highway Department Request for Snow Plows Also Discussed

BY CHERYL SLAVIN At Tuesday’s meeting of the Stony Point Town Board, Councilman Tom Basile introduced the Volunteer Emergency Services Resolution as a way to recognize the hard work and important contributions of active volunteers in good standing with the Fire District, Ambulance Corps and Auxiliary Police. The resolution would provide for discounts on fees […]

Invention Convention Held at Clarkstown’s Felix Festa Middle School

Invention Convention Held at Clarkstown’s Felix Festa Middle School

BY BARRY WARNER New City – The 2014 Nick Serra Invention and Design Convention for grades one to six was a home-based project designed to help students’ problem-solving skills. Each participating student developed an original idea for an invention from the concept stage to the completed model project. Criteria for the judging were three-fold: originality […]

Piperato Swears in 50

Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato hosted a naturalization ceremony on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, New York. Piperato administered the Oath of Allegiance to 50 new citizens from 20 different countries. Dr. Dennis Mao, Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department and Trauma Services was the keynote speaker. Rockland County Executive […]

Stony Point NY Rising Community Holds Third Public Meeting

Stony Point NY Rising Community Holds Third Public Meeting

Community gives input on proposed projects BY CHERYL SLAVIN The Stony Point New York Rising Community Reconstruction Committee held its third public meeting on Monday, February 24. The 13-member committee, co-chaired by Gurran Kane and Steven Scurti, has been meeting regularly about every two weeks since the fall to devise a community reconstruction plan that […]