Submitted by Rebecca Traum NEW CITY–Hundreds – perhaps thousands – turned out for the March For Our Lives at the Rockland County Courthouse to support and hear student leaders call for gun violence prevention.
Dominican College and its Board of Trustees have named John Gallucci, Jr., MS, ATC, PT, DPT, President and CEO of JAG Physical Therapy, as Dominican College’s 2018 Person of the Year. Gallucci will be honored at the 46th Annual Grand Reception on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 3 p.m. at the Palisadium in Cliffside Park, N.J. “We are so […]
Clarkstown Police were called to the Jesse J. Kaplan School at 9 a.m. last Wednesday when a loaded firearm was discovered on the BOCES school grounds. The weapon, a 9-millimeter Ruger, belonged to Gillian L. Jeffords, a 24-year-old teacher’s aide and licensed gun owner. The gun was found by a fellow staff member who noticed the weapon inside of […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY KAHN After years of promising to develop his Stony Point Marina into a condominium project with public access to the waterfront, longtime owner Wayne Corts sold it last year to Eli Hershkowitz for an undisclosed amount. Hershkowitz’s representatives on March 22 attended the first of many public hearings by the Town’s […]
Fair celebrates winter’s end with great food, art, crafts, live rock and jazz, fun for the whole family The snow has finally melted, and winter gives way to spring as Nyack prepares for the Nyack Chamber’s 32nd annual SpringFest street fair, set for Sunday, April 8 in the heart of Nyack on Main Street and Broadway. The fair […]
BY KATHY KAHN When an app called “thisisyourdigitallife” became available in 2013, 270,000 Facebook users were paid a nominal fee to fill out a personality quiz. That quiz opened the door for London-based Cambridge Analytics to troll the friends and acquaintances of the Facebook members who downloaded the app. All told, over 50 million Facebook […]