BY DYLAN SKRILOFF It figures to be a hectic Stony Point Planning Board meeting Thursday, June 22, 7 p.m. at the RHO Building. New Planet Sustainable Fuels will be making a presentation on their Holt Dr. site plan and a new application will be presented for the waterfront development project, now named “Eagle Bay” and […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE– Longtime Rockland Veterans Service Agency Director Jerry Donnellan has announced that he will retire at the end of the year, the County Executive’s Office stated in a press release this week. Donnellan has served the county and countless veterans as chief of the Veteran’s Agency for 30 years. He is taking a medical […]
High honors for three Rockland BOCES Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) students who were awarded college scholarships from the O’Grady-Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarships were established in memory of Nyack police Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly “Chipper” Brown, killed in the 1981 Brinks robbery. Congratulations to Mary Callan (Criminal Justice, North Rockland), […]
BY BARRY WARNER Handcycles enable riders with lower-limb mobility impairments to propel a three-wheeled cycle using their arms. While the sport has a value in everyone’s life, it is even more important in the life of a person with a disability because of its rehabilitative influence. It was in April 2013 when the Vietnam Veterans […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF After 37 years at the helm of the Stony Point Marina and in the midst of planning a major waterfront development project, Wayne Corts has sold the land and business to a new developer who says he shares a similar vision for the site. Plans have been in the works for several […]
Last year, volunteers at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick, NY and Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, NY donated a total of 53,472 hours of their time in service. That generosity was estimated as being equal to a contribution of $1,290,274. On June 1, these three hospitals […]