William Tucker, author of “Freedom Summer,” says Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 93-year-old inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, has donated $8,000 of the $35,000 needed to take the play about civil voting rights and murder in Mississippi during the 1960s on a nationwide tour. Tucker and the Shades Reportory Theatre in Haverstraw hope with the help of Kickstarter […]
Open letter from Rockland PBA President James J. Kelly to Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger Dear President Lee C. Bollinger, Last week we learned that Kathy Boudin was recently employed by Columbia University as an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work. On behalf of the hundreds of police officers serving in Rockland County and […]
The film will not be hiring extras from the community Memo to all Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and James Franco fans: We don’t know if any of these stars will be in Garnerville for tomorrow’s shoot of the Pitt-produced flick “True Story,” but if they will be in North Rockland at all, tomorrow will be […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a deadline of April 19, the Haverstraw-based theatre group Shades Rep is going to the Internet with Kickstart and doing advertising in the Rockand County Times, educational journals and theater publications to raise the funds to present a national tour of “Freedom Summer,” written by Stony Point resident William Tucker. […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Suffern Village Board met on the evening of April 1 to vote on the village budget, clearing a plan with a two percent village tax and several last-minute amendments to items such as sewer and water rates. Mayor Dagan LaCorte explained that according to a preliminary budget report, this would be […]
The College Sports Notebook is compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The notebook will be published every Thursday. Please send items of interest tomarcmaturo@aol.com. Baerga has big day at plate as Spartans sparkle It was not an April Fool’s Day joke […]