Man hit and killed by train in Stony Point

Friday night, July 19 at around 10:30 p.m. Stony Point PD found 60-year-old Kenneth Brunck dead by the train tracks in the area of West Shore Dr. in Tomkins Cove. The police had been called to the area after receiving a report of a man struck by a CSX freight train.ย The investigation isย continuing but the […]

State Announces $750 Million in Sandy Recovery Funds; Stony Point Stands to Receive $3 Million

GOVERNOR CUOMO DESIGNATES 102 NEW YORK RISING COMMUNITIES ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE MORE THAN $750 MILLION FOR STORM RECONSTRUCTION The New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program officially launched today, promising Stony Point “up to” $3 million in grants to assist in recovery from Hurricane Sandy and Irene. Stony Point is the only Rockland County town to […]

O&R DECLARES STORM WATCH AS SEVERE WEATHER PREDICTED

PEARL RIVER, NY July 18, 2013 1 p.m. — O&R has declared a company-wide Storm Watch today in anticipation of a significant thunderstorm event hitting the region Saturday afternoon. Local weather forecasters at this point are predicting that Saturday a cold front will cross the area, breaking the heat wave but also bringing strong thunderstorm […]

Radio Control Club on the “War Path”

The Hudson Valley Radio Control Club will be hosting two great events in 2013 at the Haverstraw Scenic Riverview Park on Beach Road, West Haverstraw. The first event, “Warbirds Over the Hudson,” will be held on Saturday, July 20, and will feature scale military aircrafts from WWI through today’s moder aircraft. Food will be available […]

The first group of mosquitos infected with West Nile Virus have been found in the Town of Ramapo

County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announced Thursday the New York State Department of Health confirmed the test results for the adult mosquitoes which were collected during the week of July 1 as part of the countyโ€™s ongoing West Nile Virus surveillance efforts. As of Thursday, that is the only infected pool found out […]

NYGOP Finance Director Jason Weingartner Elected National Young Republican Chair

FROM NY GOP At their Biennial Convention in Mobile, Alabama this weekend, the Young Republican National Federation elected NYGOP Finance Director Jason Weingartner as their new chairman – the first New Yorker to hold that position in 60 years. Jason had previously served as president of the New York Young Republican Club and chairman of […]