Strawberry Festival at St. Augustine Church
On Sunday June 7 after the noon mass St Augustine church on Maple Avenue in New City held a free strawberry festival to celebrate the arrival of warmer weather. Photos by Jeannine Rippa.
Pickleball Clinics in New City
Pickleball Vacations will host two instructional pickleball clinics on Friday, June 19, 2026, at the New York Pickleball Club, providing local players with an opportunity to improve their skills and learn advanced strategies in one of the nation’s fastest-growing sports. The clinics will be held at the New York Pickleball Club, located at 182 North […]
Love Streams: A Review
By Alexander Gordon An oddly surreal film about a brother and sister reuniting couldn’t be more heartwrenching. In John Cassavetes’ Love Streams we see this play out in full as two damaged people reach for each other and find a sibling bond that can not be broken. This is a beautiful thing that is yet […]
This Week in Clarkstown
You may have seen the recent news images of several buildings at the Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, engulfed in flames. The fire caused significant damage to many of the structures. Originally built in the 1860s, the Hudson River Psychiatric Center housed more than 6,000 patients over the years before officially closing […]
The Home Front – Real Families. Real Struggles.
By Dr. Max Rossi Small Habits That Save Relationships In an age of instant messaging, instant purchases, and instant gratification, relationships often suffer from an unrealistic expectation: that meaningful connections should somehow maintain themselves. Yet the strongest relationships—whether between spouses, parents and children, friends, or colleagues—are rarely sustained by dramatic gestures. More often, they are […]
The Morning Muster A Column For and By Veterans
Take a Ruck Through Historic Rockland With the warm weather in full swing, why not take advantage by getting active and checking out the local historical sites Rockland has to offer. While our county may seem like a quiet suburb, it was also once a strategic cornerstone during the Revolutionary War, World War II, and […]