BY CHERYL SLAVIN Every day is Veterans Day for Anngela Vasser-Cooper, founder and CEO of the advocacy organization Women Veterans Association of Hudson Valley, Inc. An army veteran and a social worker, she knows only too well the daily challenges facing military personnel—and particularly, female personnel—returning from active duty at home or abroad. She founded […]
House fire in Spring Valley results in minor injury to resident A fire in Spring Valley led to minor damage to a home and injuries to one individual which were treated at the scene, but did not require hospitalization. The fire occurred just past 1 p.m. on November 3. Police responded to the fire report […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN What takes less than five minutes to do but can net Rockland homeowners an average of $700 a year in tax savings? The answer is as easy as the process—re-register for the Basic STAR property tax exemption program, New York State’s school property tax relief program. As originally conceived in the late […]
Henschel-Steinau, Inc., an award-winning, retail marketing solutions agency, announced the induction of its CEO Gary Forman into the 2013 Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) Hall of Fame. POPAI will honor Gary Forman, a New City resident, at its annual Night of Honors, held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Chicago, IL on December 12, 2013. […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Members of the Thiells United Methodist Church, located on Rosman Road in Thiells, last Saturday cleared out about $12,000 worth of clothes and other donated items damaged when a tree fell and smashed into the roof of the church’s Thrift Shoppe. Church members salvaged items for St. Pauly’s, a Western New […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA After a long and often contentious election season, the unofficial final tallies have been compiled for town, village, and county races, showing County Legislator Ed Day ahead and victorious in the race for County Executive against former Spring Valley Justice David Fried and big name incumbents largely retaining their positions. With all […]