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 […]
Daniel Haloi, a 24-year-old “REPO” technician from 118 South Plank Rd., Newburgh, NY, is accused of criminal trespass in the second degree after allegedly repossessing a vehicle inappropriately. On July 15, 2015, the Stony Point Police Department arrested Haloi following an investigation that found while working for Priority Recovery as a repo-man, he unlawfully entered a garage and […]
PRESS RELEASE Senator Bill Larkin (R, C – Cornwall-On-Hudson) in a letter written to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan called for the inclusion of Stony Point, Haverstraw and the North Rockland School District in legislation recently approved that allocates $19 million to assist communities in which a fossil fuel-powered generating station […]