BY BJ GRECO Members of Tappan Zee High School’s Concert Choir and Chorale performed a special holiday arrangement by music teacher Dr. Russell Wagoner in “The Sounds of Christmas” opening of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular on December 15. Among the audience members were 45 South Orangetown Middle School seventh and eighth-grade chorus […]
Body Pulled From the Hudson On Wednesday afternoon, a man on a rowboat spotted a body in the Hudson River, near the Nyack Beach State Park. The rower called 9-1-1, who then brought the Rockland Sheriff’s Marine Unit to the scene. The body was identified as male, but the Rockland Medical Examiner’s Office is yet […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day A new year is approaching and I couldn’t be happier about my plans for the first day of 2018 – I will be taking the solemn oath of office to serve as your County Executive for another four years. I am humbled by this honor, which tops a […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Ombudsman As an MIT alumnus and former mathematics instructor at MIT, I received an alarming letter from MIT President Dr. L. Rafael Reif on December 20, 2017. This letter concerns the new federal tax bill and its impact on MIT and other institutions. “Unfortunately, despite extensive efforts by MIT, on our own […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Nyack’s Neil Berg is presenting 100 Years Of Broadway from December 18th to December 31st at the Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford with a cast of several Broadway stars, including Rita Harvey, Craig Schulman, Lawrence Clayton, Catherine Brunell, William Michale, Rebecca Pitcher and Danny Zolli. The show on New Years Eve will be a celebration of 2018. Contact […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Terror attacks on American soil, mass murders in church, widespread serial sexual assaults, unwarranted police shootings, continued gang activity in major cities, nationwide political schisms — 2017 news headlines were both frightening and disheartening. Will 2018 be any better? The truth is it depends on us — all of us. First, to […]