The footings have been poured for the Hudson Val- ley Food Bank’s new distri- bution center located in the Town of Montgomery. The new 40,000-square-foot distribution center will re- place the organization’s current facility located in Cornwall-on-Hudson, which it has outgrown. Marcia Jacobowitz, project manager for the food bank, said the holiday season is the […]
The County of Rockland is urging residents to stay home if able as an overnight severe storm continues to cause significant damage to the community. Â Fire & Emergency Services Department reports flooding and trees down on several roadways including the Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP), near the Palisades Mall, along Route 59 by Pascack Road near […]
On Friday, Sept. 22, Ernest Van Den Heuvel was visiting the memorial sign for Joan Angela D’Alessandro when he noticed that about fifty boulders had been illegally dumped on the site. The sign marks where 7-year-old Joan’s body was found on Easter Sunday, 1973 after being molested and murdered by her neighbor, Joseph McGowan. “As […]
The Rotary Club of Pearl River will be hosting its annual holiday parade this year on  Friday December 15. A float carrying Mr. and Mrs. Claus and their reindeer will take off from 225 North Middletown Rd at 6 p.m and drive through the hamlet before stopping at the police booth one Pearl River’s Main […]
Chocolate-chip cookies are a treat on their own, but what if there was a way to make their meaning even sweeter? Baking Memories 4 Kids founder and Rockland resident Frank Squeo has paved that way, creating a national foundation that provides all-expenses-paid, weeklong trips to every amusement park in Orlando, Florida for very sick or […]
Religious leaders, elected officials, and residents for Good Samaritan Hospital, gathered on Monday to celebrate the hospital’s Annual Menorah Lighting Ceremony. The celebration took a turn for the somber when Miri Ben Ami, the mother of Yosef Ohana, one of the hundreds of people forcibly abducted during Hama’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7, […]