Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann this week announced a new program that will honor Clarkstown’s local veterans and those currently serving the nation in the United States Armed Forces. Residents or businesses can sponsor a veteran or soldier with a military tribute banner to be displayed on Main Street, New City. Each banner will honor a […]
Haverstraw’s 400th Anniversary Committee presented “Rendezvous with Treason” at the Haverstraw Elks this past Sunday. In this play, reenactors Gary Petaine and Sean Grady brought Benedict Arnold and Major Andre to life in an entertaining, interactive, and dramatic program. The attendees spent an afternoon with our country’s most notorious antihero, Benedict Arnold and his partner […]
Candidate for the 97th Assembly District Joseph Chabot has called on his opponent Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee to donate the $3,800 she has received from the Friends of Sheldon Silver in 2008 to a charity that benefits the students of the East Ramapo School District. Sheldon Silver, the former longtime speaker of the Assembly, was convicted […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert this week remind residents to protect themselves by getting a flu vaccine. The flu is a serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to […]
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. on Wednesday designated Nanuet Senior High School as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2016. Nanuet Senior High School is being recognized as an “Exemplary High Performing School” as measured by performance on assessments referenced against national norms. Nanuet High is among 329 public and private elementary, middle, and high schools […]
The 2016 Helen Hayes Hospital Classic Race on Sunday, October 16 is less than a month away and the West Haverstraw-based physical rehabilitation hospital is gearing up for a very special new take on the inspirational annual event. Presented for the first time in partnership with the Town of Haverstraw at Bowline Point Park/Peck’s Pond, […]