Bamboo Vexes Orangetown Residents

Bamboo Vexes Orangetown Residents

Town Board undecided on remedies BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Can homeowners plant Japanese bamboo on their property, especially to form a hedge along a neighbor’s property, and then claim naivety when that bamboo invades the neighbor’s yard against their wishes? And what remedies do the offended residents have to remove the […]

STONY POINT AMBULANCE RECEIVES DONATION FROM SPECTRA ENERGY

STONY POINT AMBULANCE RECEIVES DONATION FROM SPECTRA ENERGY

PRESS RELEASE Marlin Browne (l), local representative from Spectra Energy, presented a $500 donation check to Alan Horowitz (r), board member and director of Special Projects for the Stony Point Ambulance Corps recently. “We are very grateful for the continuing support from Spectra Energy for our ambulance corps. It is important to develop and maintain […]

Police upstate solve case of dead dogs in SUV trunk

FROM MIDHUDSONNEWS.COM Police have solved the case of two dogs seen dead in the trunk area of an SUV at the balloon fest in Poughkeepsie last weekend. The owner of the animals, Yu Inamoto of New York City, came to the festival with his family and left the animals in the cargo area of his […]

Indian Point Unit 3 Manually Shut Down

PRESS RELEASE FROM ENTERGY  Buchanan – Control room operators manually shut down Indian Point unit 3 today upon observing fluctuating water levels inside a steam generator. Operators determined that one of the unit’s condensate pumps, which is part of the system that feeds water into the plant’s steam generators, automatically shut down while the unit […]

Rockland teacher from Mahwah arrested after leaving scene of heroin-influenced hit and run crash

FROM CLIFFVIEW PILOT A Rockland County special education teacher was under the influence of heroin when she crashed her station wagon into a utility pole in Mahwah, took off and then drove past the investigating officers in the severely damaged vehicle, Police Chief James Batelli said this afternoon. Jill Blau, 42, of Mahwah was released […]

SPRING VALLEY WOMAN MISTAKES SON FOR FIDO; FACES MISDEMEANOR

SPRING VALLEY WOMAN MISTAKES SON FOR FIDO; FACES MISDEMEANOR

A Spring Valley mother faces a charge of child endangerment for allegedly tying her 4-year old son to a bush while she went to a babysitting job. Mery Isabel Quinde-Castro, age 22, was arrested after witnesses reported to police that she had left her son tethered to the bush with a 4-foot leash attached to […]