HILLCREST – Around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 12 firefighters were dispatched to 2 Orchard Street in Hillcrest for a structure fire. Firefighters arrived on scene and found an active working fire that engulfed most of the residential home. Five fire departments arrived on scene to provide mutual aid. No residents or firefighters were injured. […]
NEW CITY – The State Comptroller’s Office has given its approval to Rockland County Executive Edwin Day’s 2020 proposed budget. The state comptroller’s office reviewed the proposed $729.9 million spending plan, which stays under the state property tax cap while investing in critical infrastructure improvements, funding new state mandates and providing for the future of […]
WEST NYACK – The Clarkstown Detective Bureau has announced that a joint law enforcement operation with the New York City Police Department and Queens District Attorney’s Office in the month of September netted over 15 kilos of controlled substances – worth an estimated street value of $2.4 million – leading to the arrest of a […]
Carolyn Fish, a nationally and internationally known leader in the fight against domestic violence and a founder of a shelter for women in Rockland County, has died. The Haverstraw resident was 71. Services will be held on Sunday morning at 9:30 at Beth Am Temple in Pearl River. Fish was the shelter’s executive director for […]
Senator James Skoufis (D-Hudson Valley) presented Jeannie Nicolakis, the owner of Sparky’s Diner in the Village of West Haverstraw with the State Senate’s highest honor for small businesses, the Empire Award. The Empire Award is given to exceptional businesses that go out of their way to give back to the community. Jeannie has owned Sparky’s […]
For many generations, the intersection of Wayne Avenue, Bulsontown Road & West Main Street in Stony Point was locally known as “Skinner Corner.” On Saturday morning, Supervisor Jim Monaghan had the pleasure and honor of officially dedicating Skinner Corner. Supervisor Monaghan noted the Skinner family has been a vital part of the Stony Point community, […]