Lowdown on Town of Haverstraw Board Meeting 9/24

CORRECTION: The original version of this article stated that the next town board meeting will be October 11 at 8 p.m. The town has now changed the time to October 11 at 6 p.m.   BY MICHAEL CAHILL Budget season is just around the corner and Haverstraw residents can expect to see their taxes go […]

Killer at Large, Authorities Urge Hikers to Avoid Harriman

As accused killer Eugene Palmer is most likely wandering or hiding somewhere within Harriman State Park, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is advising patrons to refrain from hiking in backcountry of the park this entire weekend due to the ongoing, multi-jurisdictional police search. Park authorities will also close Beaver […]

Mountain Man on the Lam

Mountain Man on the Lam

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Eugene Palmer wanted for murdering his daughter-in-law It’s the crime of the year in North Rockland. Mountain-man Eugene Palmer, of longtime North Rockland Palmer lineage, is accused of murdering his daughter-in-law Tammy Palmer on Monday and then escaping into the woods he knows so well. He’s yet to be found. His own […]

Rockland’s Tom Cotter: Runner-Up on America’s Got Talent

Rockland’s Tom Cotter: Runner-Up on America’s Got Talent

BY DIANA BIERMAN In the entire history of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, there’s never been a comedian to make it as far as Stony Point resident Tom Cotter did. Cotter had America on their toes—on their toes hysterically laughing—during the entire seventh season of America’s Got Talent. And on September 12, he snagged second place […]