BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM Las Margaritas (formally Fiesta Cancun) may become a Quick Chek convenience store and gas station sooner rather than later. At this week’s Stony Point board meeting a Quick Chek representative, Jeff Albanese, presented the current plan that the company has drawn up, in the event Quick Chek officially acquires the property. […]
As the Rockland County Times warned readers a month ago, Noel’s restaurant in Stony Point is gaining an increasingly bad reputation among law enforcement and their business is in jeopardy. We reported this following a stabbing that occurred outside a Noel’s Halloween party. Around the same time the restaurant was fined $7K for serving an […]
BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM At Tuesday’s monthly update on “NRCSD Transforming Our Future” Superintendent Ileana Eckert presented “’Plan B’ Attendance Lines and cost-containment.” Plan B differs from Plan A in several ways. Plan A took current middle school lines and simply dropped them down into the elementary school level. Plan B used the same transportation […]
“Operation Hang-Up” catches many off guard Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that the New York State police issued 816 tickets for texting-while-driving violations over the Thanksgiving holiday. Approximately 330 of the tickets were issued as a direct result of “Operation Hang-Up,” an enhanced enforcement campaign that was conducted from November 23-27. The additional […]
BY MAUREEN MOLLAHAN The Nanuet Mall was the center of discussion at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Clarkstown Town Board. Plans remain to tear down and rebuild the mall starting January of 2012. Tom Schneider, an Executive Vice President of Simon Property INC. explained a few designs of the changes that would be made to […]
New bridge expected by 2017; no plans for a train at this time BY KOREY WILSON Plans for a rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge are underway. The Federal Highway Administration along with New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and New York State Thruway Authority are working on ways to improve the structure that has […]