BY KATHY KAHN When America went to war, 23-year-old Charles Robert Fountain, a Nyack High School graduate, wanted to serve his country as a U.S. Marine. When he and his buddy, David Knight, went down to take the physical, they both passed, but Fountain was left waiting for several months before it was finally agreed […]
If you’re a customer of Lane Deli in Stony Point and you bought a Take 5 lotto ticket on Saturday, April 8, make sure you checked those numbers! The New York Lottery announced that one of the three top-prize winning tickets for the April 8 drawing was sold at Lane Deli, located on Washburns Lane […]
The Historical Society of Rockland County last week announced the winners of the 27th annual Rockland County Executive’s Historic Preservation Merit Awards (RCEHPMA). These awards, presented in recognition of outstanding historic preservation efforts in Rockland County, will be presented at a country supper on the grounds of the Historical Society’s historic Jacob Blauvelt Homestead in New […]
The Historical Society of Rockland County’s popular boat day trips to the TZ Bridge construction site return in 2017 the following dates: Thursday, June 8 (sales opening 10 a.m. on April 27), Wednesday, July 5 (sales open 10 a.m. on May 24) and Tuesday, August 15 (sales open 10 a.m. on July 6). Tickets go […]
Four star review BY GEORGE J. DACRE “Mamma Mia” has everything: a storyline that grips you, Abba music, a fantastic young cast dancing and singing and having fun and a socko finale including Abba’s “Dancing Queen” that knocks your socks off. Bill Stutler and Bon Funking, the Producers, brought in “Mamma Mia” after a 14 year […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Piles of contaminated dirt have sat in plain view in a park in Sloatsburg and other areas of western Ramapo for years after the soil was excavated as part of a sewer project. Who knows how much longer those dirt piles would have remained if my administration had […]