BY BARRY WARNER Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) are required to provide urgent medical support to people who are injured and critically ill, and transport them to a medical facility. As first responders in an ambulance service, EMTs are dispatched to the scene of a crisis. This can be anything from a car accident, a fire, […]
The 11th annual Penguin Plunge in Nyack was held Sunday, March 4. Tens of thousands of dollars were raised many donors and organizations, as well as by the hundreds of souls who paid $20 a piece for the privilege of dunking their bodies in the frigid Hudson River. The monies raised every year go to […]
Final meeting with Sloatsburg sends DOT back to drawing board BY KATHY KAHN In a mission to make Route 17 in Sloatsburg more manageable for village residents and businesses, the NYS Department of Transportation and its planner from Creighton Manning came to Village Hall on Tuesday, March 13 to finalize plans for restructuring the corridor. […]
Photo by Fred Hodder Nyack resident and photographer Fred Hodder took this photo of the new Tappan Zee Bridge while flying out of La Guardia this January. It offers a vantage point of the new bridge you may not have seen before. Also visible is what remained of the old Tappan Zee at the time.
The following local residents were recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Emily Gerace of Haverstraw (10927) was initiated at Fordham University. Robert Palacios of Nanuet (10954) was initiated at Fordham University. These residents are among approximately 30,000 students, […]
Isabella Rieder of Sloatsburg and 10 other art students traveled over spring break to the far-away island-country of Singapore – a contemporary art destination in Asia – to further their studies and experience new cultures. While on the faculty-led trip, the students attended lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts, visited renowned museums and photographed […]