BY KATHY KAHN STONY POINT – Colleen Woods, a Stony Point resident and former North Rockland School District employee, was having a wonderful life until doctors broke the news to her about her inexplicable health concerns: It was  non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Colleen’s brother, Tim Duffy, is an active member of the Stony Point Fire Department and […]
The Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley is celebrating its 100th anniversary onSunday, April 23 by re-creating the day it was first opened. There will be a ribbon-cutting with decorations, music (performed by the Spring Valley Marching band along with other guitarists and drummers), refreshments and Boy and Girl Scouts presenting the American Flag. The […]
BY JOHN KRYGER Five volunteer firefighters were honored Saturday, April 15, at the Rockland County Fire Chief’s Association’s Old-Timers Awards Night and dinner held at Krucker’s Catering and Picnic Grove in Pomona. More than 250 current and former Rockland fire chiefs, along with County Executive Ed Day, gathered to honor their own at the annual […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Sunny weather has been drawing visitors to Nyack’s Memorial Park, where Holly Desher and a friend were watching the I Lift NY, stationed near the Rockland shoreline, through a high-powered lens. Last month the super crane resumed setting structural steel on the eastbound span utilizing a different process. Assemblies lifted from the […]
Rockland County Legislator Aney Paul and a volunteer crew will participate in the 2017 Great American Cleanup sponsored by Keep Rockland Beautiful on Earth Day, which is Saturday, April 22. New volunteers are welcome. Debris left on roadsides is often washed by rain and melted snow into local waterways through storm drains or blown directly into […]
On Friday, April 21, The United Way of Rockland County (UWRC) will hold its seventh Annual Spring Day of Caring event, which is known as one of the largest volunteer community service events in the entire county. This day brings together over 360 volunteers from local companies with students from RCC, St. Thomas Aquinas and […]