Several Rockland County and New York City-based lawmakers were arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges today. Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin (D) and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret (D) were among those arrested. The Spring Valley pair are being hit with charges for allegedly taking bribes on sales of village property and asking for a […]
Like Bernadette Dohrn before her, another Brinks criminal has moved on to a position of influence in academia. Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard in Rockland County — now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia […]
A sixth-grade girl, Chrissy Gabriel, who attended St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic School and was a resident of Spring Valley passed away Saturday evening from an infection caused by bacterial meningitis, Health Department officials confirmed. The identity of the specific strain of meningitis is still being investigated. The girl is believed to have acquired the infection […]
A news conference will be held at noon at the Rockland Health Department campus in Pomona updating the public about the meningitis death that took place yesterday. A sixth-grade student from St. Gregorgy Barbarigo School in Garnerville passed away on Easter after acquiring bacterial meningitis days earlier. Parents from the school received an Iris Alert […]
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Plans to build a gasification plant off Holt Drive in Stony Point were pulled by developers last week without reason given, temporarily ending a debate between the towns of Stony Point and Haverstraw. MBC Contractors Inc. proposed the project, which would convert up to 4,000 tons organic biomass into gas for fuel and electricity each […]