BY CHERYL SLAVIN At last Tuesday’s regular town meeting, five Eagle Scouts received certificates of honor from the Stony Point Town Board in recognition of their community service. Each scout had chosen to use his Eagle Scout project as a way to make improvements that would benefit the town as a whole. Shawn Fenton chose to […]
Long-time Nyack nightlife fixture O’Donoghue’s closes O’Donoghue’s Tavern, one of Nyack’s oldest and best-known local institutions, closed up shop on Thursday night after decades of operation under the O’Donoghue family name. The restaurant and bar hosted one last night of bittersweet celebration last week, bringing in patrons and musicians to honor the storied Nyack tavern […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN Another page of bridge history took place last week when the I Lift NY fitted a 600-ton precast concrete pile cap on a set of piles. It was the super crane’s first of many placements and future lifts. “You have the tub that sitting over four piles that are […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT Congers Elementary School is being re-built on all exterior walls, following action by the Clarkstown Central School District Board of Education last winter. At first, school officials indicated it would be too expensive to repair the structurally ailing 90-year-old school, and announced it would be closed instead. A massive campaign by angered […]
Bill in State Senate looked at skeptically BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – A much-anticipated proposal which would have lent official county legislative support to a pair of state bills authorizing a fiscal monitor for the East Ramapo Central School District failed in committee on Tuesday. In spite of strong backing from most members of […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN At its meeting on Wednesday, April 22 the Orangetown Planning Board voted 5-2 to approve the final site plan for the proposed Anellotech, Inc. expansion at the Pfizer campus. The plans call for the construction of an 84 foot high addition to Anellotech’s already existing laboratory facility to allow for the development and […]