In Wednesday’s $1.58 billion record-breaking Powerball jackpot, Lottery players in Rockland, Westchester and Orange counties won millions of dollars with five winning tickets ranging from $50,000 to $1 million. The largest winning ticket was a $1 million Powerball second prize sold at Stony Point Mini Mart at 104 West Main Street in Stony Point, Rockland […]
Submitted by George Potanovic, Jr. The Stony Point Planning Board, as lead agency, will hold a Public Scoping Hearing on Thursday, January 28, 2016, 7 p.m. at the RHO Building on the Breakers waterfront project. This is a chance for you to learn about the proposed project and ask any questions to be answered by […]
BY MARC MATURO No question about it, the North Rockland community mourns the death of the great Ralph J. Cordisco, but at the same time it can only celebrate the man’s everlasting legacy and what he meant to literally thousands of people whose path he not only crossed but helped to nourish. Coach Cordisco, 97, […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- It’s official, George Hoehmann is Clarkstown’s 45th supervisor. Supervisor Hoehmann was sworn in by Judge Craig Johns and then gave a State of the Town address to an overflow crowd of residents and town officials at the Town Hall’s first-floor auditorium on Monday, Jan 4. Hoehmann (R.), 50, a councilman […]
BY SAMANTHA MERCADO In November of this year a group of concerned parents and community members decided that something should be done about North Rockland’s full day kindergarten issue, or lack there of. The North Rockland full day kindergarten advocates have garnered considerable support in the North Rockland community in order to start their children […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Nanuet resident Jim Evers knows the importance of movement and fellowship with one’s community. “I started Grassroots Community Service Projects in 2010 shortly after my wife died in 2008,” Evers said. Since then the program added co-facilitators Leslie Barnett and recently Sally Borgman. Susan Lust heads the Movement for Joy program, which began […]