The following article contains references to former Village of Airmont employees. To protect their privacy no names are used. Airmont Mayor Nathan Bubel was elected to office in 2019, and reelected in 2023. Prior to Mayor Bubel’s tenure, Airmont employed a full time Fire Inspector as well as a full time and a part time […]
Rockland Community College student, Christopher Raetz, and faculty member, Amanda Feeney, have been named winners of the 2023 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Student Essay Contest. Christophers essay titled “Amanda Feeney’s Mentorship on My Personal and Professional Growth” was chosen as one of the top three essays out of more than 140 outstanding contest entries nationwide. […]
West Nyack resident Peter Winograd serves as concertmaster for the Telly Award winning television special Discover Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony by The Discovery Orchestra (TDO), which is available to stream through June 30 on The WNET Group’s AllArts.organd on the free ALL ARTS app on all major streaming platforms, including Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire […]
Urban renewal projects irrevocably changed the landscape of American cities and villages in the 1950s and 1960s. Although intended to stimulate economic and social ‘revitalization,’ many of these projects resulted in the destruction of entire communities. Nyack has its own urban renewal story, now told in a new documentary through interviews with people who […]
Meet Jax, a K-9 of the Clarkstown Police Department, who’s tough as nails, loves rocks and works for toys. Jax has been a member of the department since 2018 when he was assigned to work with his handler, Officer Mike Keane, before he was even a year old. “There’s certain tests that we run […]
You’ve heard of spring cleaning, but what about summer redesigning? With the sunny season approaching, rearrange your home applying feng shui principles. Nancy Parker, a personal and environmental energy specialist; healer and feng shui practitioner of more than 20 years, describes feng shui as a study of the relationship between “the environment and human life, […]