Dinner is Served: Bailey’s Smokehouse

BY DR. ANDREW J. SMITH I had been thinking that I should revisit the southern part of the county for a review so I decided on Bailey’s Smokehouse on Erie St. in Blauvelt. I do enjoy barbecue and I had been hearing good things about it so I tried it out. The moment you walk […]

90-year-old man’s WWII hand grenades cause stir in nursing home

90-year-old man’s WWII hand grenades cause stir in nursing home

At 2:53 p.m. on Friday, February 24 the Clarkstown Police Department received a report of a suspicious device found inside the Tappan Zee Manor Nursing Home located at 51 Mountainview Ave in Central Nyack, NY. An extensive search of the building was conducted and 1 training hand grenade and one metal hand grenade were found in […]

SIGN UP NOW FOR BETTER CHOICES, BETTER HEALTH

SIGN UP NOW FOR BETTER CHOICES, BETTER HEALTH

PSA FROM COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. Do you have a chronic health condition, such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, stroke, or osteoporosis, that is stopping you from doing the things that you want to do? If yes, then County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert encourages you to sign up now for the […]

SCHOLASTIC SPOTLIGHT: North Rockland girls enjoy stellar season on hardwood

SCHOLASTIC SPOTLIGHT: North Rockland girls enjoy stellar season on hardwood

North Rockland girls enjoys stellar season on hardwood Girls basketball team defies skeptics, rises to challenge formidable Albertus Magnus at Westchester County Center       No one, least of all veteran Coach Kevin Metcalf and his staff, would deny that this season has already gone better than expected for the North Rockland High School girls […]

Ba Mar residents meet with team from Office of Storm Recovery

Ba Mar residents meet with team from Office of Storm Recovery

STORY AND PHOTO BY KATHY KAHN  Over 100 homeowners and renters from the BaMar manufactured home community met with New York Rising’s Storm Recovery Task Force at the Stony Point Center February 28. Both homeowners and renters  are beginning the process of  determining eligibility for a new manufactured home, a possible path to home ownership in a […]

Racial Tensions Rise When Meeting the Parents

By Vincent Abbatecola From 2012 to 2015, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key brought television audiences their sketch-comedy show, “Key and Peele,” which focused on several social topics, such as race relations and ethnic stereotypes. Like all talented comics who deal with such subjects, this duo was able to do so in a way that made […]