BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NYACK- With temperatures below freezing, droves of “crazy but warm hearted people” came out to participate in the Eighth Annual Penguin Plunge on the icy banks of the Hudson River at Memorial Park in Nyack this past Sunday, March 1. As snow began to […]
FROM SPPD The Stony Point Police Department announces the successful revival of a 19-year-old female with the use of Narcan. Stony Point Police were called to a home on Lake Road in Stony Point at 1:55 a.m. on March 1, 2015. The victim was reported to be having difficulty breathing and a possible seizure. The officer found the […]
WHITE PLAINS – Jurors today returned a guilty verdict for Lacey Spears, the Chestnut Ridge mother accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son Garnett by introducing a lethal dose of salt through his feeding tube. Following a 14-day trial at Westchester County Courthouse and two days of deliberation by a jury, Spears, 27, was convicted of […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN At a special meeting on February 24, the North Rockland Central School Board unanimously voted in favor of extending a school tax exemption to eligible North Rockland veteran homeowners. Also known as the Alternative Veterans Exemption, this break on school taxes is as a result of a 2013 amendment to a New York […]
Rockland County Conservative Party Chairman Ed Lettre and Republican Party leadership are at odds over several races slated for the 2015 election season and the two groups have butted heads already, the Rockland County Times has learned. High ranking officials in the Republican Party told the newspaper that Lettre went so far as to threaten […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN “I became a volunteer with National Council of Jewish Women when we first moved to Spring Valley in 1969,” Rochelle Berger said. One of the first things she did was become involved in social action “which was important for me.” Longtime friend Addy Frankel, involved with NCJW for 52 years, said Berger […]