July 4th Events in Rockland and Around the Region

June 30 – Ramapo, Celebration of Liberty & Pride will be at Rockland Community College. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and the event features local entertainment, skydivers and the bands, Groovy Tuesday, Ryan Volser, Chevonne and the Fuzz and Kick Start Charlie. A sensational fireworks display will start at 9:30 p.m. by Zambelli Fireworks International. […]

Oswald the Grouch

Oswald the Grouch

Oswald Boncoeur has been identified as the West Haverstraw Grouch who has filed numerous complaints about children playing basketball in his street. At a recent village board meeting Boncoeur cited an arcane village regulation that banned all ball-playing in streets–even side streets like his own–and local parents are worried that their children might be barred […]

RAMAPO IMPROPERLY DENIES RCT FOIL REQUEST

Police sources tell the newspaper the town is fibbing Following the FBI raid on town hall in early May, Ramapo police made the unusual move of publicly announcing the overtime costs of an anti-Internet event held by persons within the Hasidic and Orthodox community at the ballpark in Pomona the following week. Police said over […]

NEW BUSINESS IN TOWN

NEW BUSINESS IN TOWN

Orangetown’s new Stop & Shop on Rt. 303 hosted a ribbon-cutting June 7. The supermarket donated to local causes, including the police, Goodwill and the Blauvelt Lions Club, as a goodwill gesture.

What it took to Bring Bloomberg to Rockland

What it took to Bring Bloomberg to Rockland

Rockland IDA headed negotiations with mega-corporation BY MICHAEL RICONDA Orangetown – The Rockland Industrial Development Agency has been hard at work during the past year bringing big business to Rockland and appears to have struck a groundbreaking final deal with Russo Development Company and Bloomberg for the latter’s new data center in Orangetown. “We’re looking […]

STONY POINT AMBULANCE CORPS ELECTIONS

The annual meeting and Board of Directors’ election for the Stony Point Ambulance Corps will be held on the fourth Monday in June, June 24, 2013, for the purpose of filling two vacancies on the Board of Directors; and voting to accept new life members and new honorary members. Embattled president and vice president, Marc […]