STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN Our air-conditioned bus turned into the former Ramp E Thruway entrance and headed toward the new Tappan Zee Bridge to celebrate the opening of its new westbound span. En route, we learned where the shared use path for the Hudson Valley’s first cable-stayed bridge would begin near the Westchester […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Tomorrow is a long-anticipated day: the westbound span of the new Tappan Zee Bridge will open to westbound motorists. The media was offered a peek at the $3.1-mile, $3.98 billion project today, its first since the eight main span towers were finished in December. Since then, crews have been working to complete that […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE– Rockland County Executive Ed Day was at the Garner Arts Center in Garnerville today to announce the availability of $42,000 in state grants to support community-based arts and cultural activities. “This funding helps to ensure that cultural activity is accessible to all residents whether they live in Haverstraw or Piermont or Garnerville […]
Madness drives local hoarder to continue attempts to buy Huskies even as he and wife face 44 counts of animal torture and neglect BY JOE KUHN Lifelong Stony Point resident Jerome Adler appeared in court Tuesday with his wife and adult children to plead not guilty to the multiple counts of animal cruelty leveled against […]
Ziggy, a male cat rescued by Save The Animals Rescue Team II (START II), the non-profit, all volunteer, no-kill animal rescue group, from a local high kill shelter where he was emaciated and slated to be placed onto the euthanasia list about 2 months ago. Ziggy, a short hair domestic grey and white cat, approximately […]
BY AMAYAH SPENCE Due to the findings of a state-set equalization formula, it has been discovered that property values for Orangetown have risen this year while property values for Clarkstown have remained the same. As a result, even though these two towns belong to the same school district, the taxes for Clarkstown residents will rise […]