BY DIANA BIERMAN For the past 27 years, during the week before Halloween, the Stony Point Ambulance Corps holds a walk-through haunted house when all the ghosts and goblins come out to trick or treat. The haunted house brings people from all over. It’s decked out with spooky décor, slanted walls, dead ends and much […]
O&R Press Release John J. McAvoy, the senior vice president of Central Operations at Consolidated Edison of New York, today was named president and chief executive officer of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) effective January 1. McAvoy succeeds William G. Longhi, who served as O&R’s president and CEO for nearly four years. Longhi, who […]
BY LEGAL LARRY State Supreme Court Judge Linda Jamieson recently ruled that a sexual discrimination suit brought by a Town of Haverstraw employee will proceed to trial. Cheryl Croci, a long-time employee of the Town of Haverstraw, filed a lawsuit claiming damages for years of abuse she allegedly endured while working in the town’s highway […]
BY CANDACE RIVERA The Town of Ramapo held their first annual Haitian Heritage Night, Wednesday night at the Ramapo Town Hall. Guests enjoyed Haitian food, music, and poetry. The festivities also included speeches from two young Haitian natives now living in Rockland County. Lotechine Brevil, an eighth grader at Pomona Middle School, spoke about the day […]
Simon says the dark side finally won Big money has bought out the determination of one fiesty Rockland County legend, Ellen Ferretti. But it took death to beat her. Ferretti gained fame in Rockland for her refusal to sell the house on the corner of Rt. 59 and Middletown Rd. that her father built with […]
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