BY DR. ANDREW J. SMITH I have been thinking of where to do my next installment so driving through Sloatsburg recently I thought of Rhodes’ Tavern on Route 17. It is owned by Tyler Rhodes who is known far and wide for his support for the men and women in blue so I decided on […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH The self-proclaimed “King of Spring Valley” had a really bad week in the Rockland County Supreme Court. It started when Village of Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme was ordered to repay the village for the purchase of a 2014 Ford vehicle, which a judge ruled the mayor bought in violation of a New […]
The Clarkstown Police Department regrets to announce the passing of retired police K9 “King,” longtime partner of PO Bob Reilly. King passed away last Thursday. He had retired in 2016 after eight years of “exemplary” service to the Department and to the Town of Clarkstown. “King” was an 11-year-old German Shepherd born in the Czech […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Drivers honked and waved as they passed South Franklin Street and Clinton Avenue, where members of Preserve South Nyack gathered the Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail. The group is concerned about a spur connecting the trail to the new bridge’s shared use path and its implementation. “They talked about putting a paved […]
BY KATHY KAHN BaMar in Stony Point, a manufactured home community on the town’s coastline battered by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, is still the site of 78 remaining homesteads. A packed audience filled Stony Point Center on Thursday, January 26, to learn what options would be available to them through the Governor’s Office of Storm […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown revealed Tuesday that it has apparently attracted one of America’s largest data centers to locate in Orangeburg, bringing a huge tax ratable to the town while also facilitating the demolition of more than 50 abandoned buildings at the town-owned former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus. It’s a […]