NEW CITY – The New York State Board for Historic Preservation has recommended that the Onderdonck-Tallman and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses be added to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The Blauvelt-Cropsey Farm has also been approved and will be added to the New York State Register of Historic Places. That has been forwarded to […]
NEW YORK – More than 20-year veteran of the MTA, Veronique Hakim, has been named interim executive director of the transportation agency as a search committee will review and recommend candidates for the permanent position. Chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast retired last week as MTA head of the agency, which oversees New York City transportation […]
The Biloxi City Council voted 6-0 this January to rename “Great Americans Day” to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But, technically, if you live in almost any other part of the country, that day already is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “Great Americans Day” was a state-named holiday that caused a large amount […]
BY KATHY KAHN BaMar in Stony Point, a manufactured home community on the town’s coastline battered by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, is still the site of 78 remaining homesteads. A packed audience filled Stony Point Center on Thursday, January 26, to learn what options would be available to them through the Governor’s Office of Storm […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown revealed Tuesday that it has apparently attracted one of America’s largest data centers to locate in Orangeburg, bringing a huge tax ratable to the town while also facilitating the demolition of more than 50 abandoned buildings at the town-owned former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus. It’s a […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Grace Vanderwaal and family have proven they have no intention to forsake their hometown fans. Since winning America’s Got Talent and releasing her debut album, Grace has continued to make local appearances, most recently at the County Executive Ball at the Pearl River Hilton. She sang the national anthem and met with […]