Palisades Free Library has booked a special event for Thursday, February 23 at 7 p.m. at the Library featuring Serbian author and global activist Srdja Popovic. “Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World,” a visit by author Srdja […]
Orangetown approves work for 2018 BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Orangetown Town Board gave the green light recently to a long-awaited reconstruction project for a dangerous mile-long stretch of North Middletown Road in Pearl River, from Central Avenue north to Crooked Hill Road. Details of the major re-building effort were presented […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Naomi Streicher of Realty Teams Pomona has bombarded the Stony Point market the past few weeks with her trademark aggressive campaign encouraging homeowners to sell their properties. Among her strategies is sending letters to local homeowners listing all properties recently sold in the town. Streicher plays the role of matchmaker of sorts, […]
NEW CITY- The swastikas and racial slurs painted on 12 trees in a wooded area of Main Street have been painted over by the property owner, Allen Apfelbaum, on Tuesday. Apfelbaum, builder of the Buckley Farms housing development, said the large swastikas remained in the wooded area for seven months while Clarkstown Police investigated. Police […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH The self-proclaimed “King of Spring Valley” had a really bad week in the Rockland County Supreme Court. It started when Village of Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme was ordered to repay the village for the purchase of a 2014 Ford vehicle, which a judge ruled the mayor bought in violation of a New […]
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 […]