SOCSD Superintendent to Retire in December 2014

It is retirement time for Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, the superintendent of Schools for South Orangetown Central School District. Dr. Mitchell announced through the Board of Education on Friday that he will retire from the post effective December 31, 2014. It will have been a six-year and five plus month run for Dr. Mitchell, who joined […]

First Ever Meals on Wheels Flea Market on Saturday

On Satruday, February 22, Meals on Wheels of Rockland County will hold their first annual Flea Market at the Clarkstown/Pearl River Senior Center, adjacent to the Main Meals on Wheels headquarters at 121 West Nyack Road in Nanuet. Typical flea market items will be available from 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and many vendors are […]

FIFTEEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON FOR HAVERSTRAW MAN CONVICTED IN VIOLENT BEATING OF NEIGHBOR

FIFTEEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON FOR HAVERSTRAW MAN CONVICTED IN VIOLENT BEATING OF NEIGHBOR

FROM DA’S OFFICE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe Wednesday announced that William Lewis (DOB 04/23/83) of 47 New Main Street, Haverstraw, New York was sentenced to 15 years in state prison and five years post release supervision after being convicted following a jury trial of: One count of attempted murder in the second […]

Famous Rock n’ Roll DJ indicted on sex charges

Dave Herman of Airmont, a former rock DJ for WNEW in New York, was indicted on Tuesday for charges related to attempts to transport a minor across borders for the purpose of sex, according to a recent AP report. Herman was arrested in October for communicating with what he thought was the 36-year-old mother of […]

Greenway Awards $5,000 for Rockland Farm Alliance Farmland Expansion Program

Press Release from HRVG The Hudson River Valley Greenway  announced it has awarded the Town of Clarkstown in partnership with the Village of Upper Nyack a $5,000 Greenway Communities Grant for the Rockland Farm Alliance Farm Land Expansion Program. The Greenway board awarded a total of $33,000 for projects throughout the Hudson Valley region at […]

CRACK IN THE BUTT

CRACK IN THE BUTT

It started out as a simple open container summons, but before it was over, one of Orangetown’s finest was removing bags of crack cocaine from the buttocks of 26-year-old Nyack resident Bryant Dickerson. Just a minute after midnight on Saturday, February 15, an Orangetown police officer alleges that Mr. Dickerson was in possession of an open […]