Information from Rockland AOH This year’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshall is Emmett Woods. Woods has been a resident of Pearl River since 1995. He was born in Pomeroy County Tyrone in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1985 where he met his wife Moira while living in the Bronx. Together they […]
At the Haverstraw Town Board Meeting this week, Supervisor Howard Phillips and the Town Board members recognized three young ladies who achieved the Silver Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Girl Scouts. Erin Fitzsimmons, Brooke Hennigan and Lauren Travaglini all earned the Silver Award for their outstanding projects. Erin’s project was the beautification of […]
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.