PEARL RIVER, NY Jan. 10, 2017 — Calling all teachers who strive for that, “Oh, Wow!” moment in their classrooms. Get your proposals ready. O&R this week announced that it will award grants totaling $35,000 to support classroom projects and teacher professional-development initiatives. Those proposals should ride the cutting edge, focusing on science, technology, engineering […]
Two senior leaders from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will be presenting “Outlook on the Economy: National and Regional Perspectives” on January 13, 2017, at 8:30 a.m. in the Fury Lecture Hall in the Prusmack Center. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8 a.m. Joseph Tracy, executive vice president and senior advisor to […]
Peekskill Police Officer Runs over Two Teens; Ramapo Police Accused of Cover up On September 7, 2016 a Peekskill Police officer ran over two yeshiva students on Route 22. The officer, Jonathan Mosquera, 24 years old of Suffern, was late for his night shift with the Peekskill Police Department and was allegedly speeding, trying to […]
Orangeburg event scheduled for April 8 BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The largest U.S. commemoration of the infamous Bataan Death March of World War II is scheduled for April 8 in Orangeburg, and is expected to draw thousands of visitors to the Orangetown hamlet for military memorial services. An ad-hoc committee headed by New City […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The owners of the property of the former Fiesta Cancun restaurant on Rt. 9W in Stony Point have torn the century-old building down after years of it sitting unoccupied. Stony Point Supervisor Jim Monaghan said the town had no control over the property owner’s decision. The owner told the town he is […]
At Wednesday’s board meeting Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and the town board voted Councilman Yitzchok Ullman as deputy supervisor, ending Councilman Patrick Withers two-year stint in the position. Withers has butted heads with St. Lawrence at times. He stood alongside former Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman, who passed away in an apparent suicide Friday, in calling […]