PHOTOS FROM “ROCKLAND FIRES” FB SITE A truck flipped over at Short Clove Rd. for the third time in 14 months on Tuesday. Rockland Fires Facebook site tracks local emergency activity and made note that history “repeats itself” on Short Clove Rd. this Tuesday. The time-stamp of the incidents can be seen at the bottom […]
The Ramapo Police department is currently conducting an investigation into the causes of a fire, which destroyed a pick-up truck and trailer. At about 3 a.m., August 12 the department was advised, by a NYSP Trooper who was turning around in the Provident Bank Park lot, of a vehicle fire in the parking lot. Arriving […]
STORY BY JANIE ROSMAN School board members were served with legal papers Tuesday night in front of a packed audience at Kakiat Elementary School auditorium minutes before the meeting started. The location was moved to accommodate the larger crowd. Angry parents and educators carrying protest signs and demanding equal treatment for minority students watched as […]
FROM THE RAMAPO POLICE DEPARTMENT Today RPD responded to an unusual call. A herd of cows got loose from a dairy farm along Ackertown road in the Village of Chestnut Ridge. The cows ended up in a yard on Milrose lane which is near Ackertown road. A farm worker responded and grabbed one cow. He […]
STORY BY JANIE ROSMAN While it canceled the July 28 meeting earlier this week, the East Ramapo school board will have to face its own legal bills, per last month’s New York State Supreme Court ruling that the district overpaid its attorneys $2,055,345.50 (more than 10 times a reasonable amount). According to Supreme Court Justice […]
BY BILL DEMAREST PEARL RIVER – A 22-year-old Nanuet man and a 17-year-old from Brooklyn were arrested early Tuesday morning after an investigation into a rash of car break-ins in Pearl River, according to Orangetown police. At about 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, town officers were alerted to cars being entered on Bogart Avenue in Pearl […]