Currently, the world makes and consumes about 600 billion pounds of plastic yearly, in a market that is growing at about 5% a year. However, scammers in Nigeria are taking the word “consuming” much too seriously. The Nigerian government seized 2.5 metric tons of rice, which they believed to actually have been made of plastic, […]
Thomas Hart, 52, residing at 152 Conklin Road, Monroe, NY, was arrested by the Stony Point Police Department on January 10, 2017 for criminal mischief in the third degree, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and is a fugitive from justice. The defendant was arrested following an investigation by the […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The owners of the property of the former Fiesta Cancun restaurant on Rt. 9W in Stony Point have torn the century-old building down after years of it sitting unoccupied. Stony Point Supervisor Jim Monaghan said the town had no control over the property owner’s decision. The owner told the town he is […]
FROM SPPD On December 31, 2016 the Stony Point Police Department arrested Fernando Matos of Newburgh on charges of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (D- felony) and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. A routine traffice stop revealed Matos allegedly had a fictitious Indiana “dealer” license plate affixed to […]
NY Supreme Court Justice Hon. Alan D. Scheinkman dismissed Former Rockland County Board of Elections Commissioner Lou Babcock’s suit seeking court intervention on his ouster as BOE commissioner. Babcock claimed the Republican Party inappropriately removed him via dictate of the Executive Committee instead of allowing the full Republican Committee to vote. Hon. Scheinkman said the […]
At Wednesday’s board meeting Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and the town board voted Councilman Yitzchok Ullman as deputy supervisor, ending Councilman Patrick Withers two-year stint in the position. Withers has butted heads with St. Lawrence at times. He stood alongside former Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman, who passed away in an apparent suicide Friday, in calling […]