New Café in RCC Student Union: HAWK’S NEST

The opening of the HAWK’S NEST on the first floor of the Student Union provides a new culinary option to students, employees and visitors to Rockland Community College in addition to the existing cafeteria in the Cultural Arts Center. The Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting will take place on Tuesday, March 29, at 10 a.m. […]

NOODLES & COMPANY ANNOUNCES THE GRAND OPENING OF NANUET LOCATION

  Noodles & Company, serving classic noodle and pasta dishes from around the world, announced it will open its new Nanuet, NY location on Monday, March 28. The restaurant will open at 11 a.m. and is located at 44 Rockland Plaza. “We are excited to continue to expand in New York and bring our REAL food, […]

ROCKLAND LEGISLATORS UNIFY AGAINST PAROLE FOR BRINKS KILLER

Legislators voted 13-0 last week to pass a resolution opposing the parole and release of the convicted killer. Nyack Police Officers Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly “Chipper” Brown and Brinks’ Guard Peter Paige were killed during the Oct. 20, 1981 robbery. Paige was killed during a $1.8 million armored car heist at the then-Nanuet […]

O&R BEGINS WORK ON COAL TAR CLEAN UP IN SUFFERN

O&R has begun work on a clean-up project, including the removal of approximately 20,000 cubic yards of coal-tar impacted soil, at the site of a manufactured gas plant (MGP) that closed its doors nearly 80 years ago on Pat Malone Drive in the village of Suffern. The project is expected to last seven to nine […]

THE FEDS ROCK ROCKLAND

Could there be much more to come? BY CAROL MCILMURRAY ROCKLAND- The Federal Bureau of Investigations came back to Rockland in full force Wednesday. Much-hyped expectations of a roundup of crooked politicians were not met, but only a week and a day after News 12 announced they were tipped by federal sources of looming FBI […]

Vinny Raffa’s Posse Turns Against Him

BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NYACK- Adam Koplowitz, 21, isn’t a fan of local sticker vandal Vinny Raffa, and even got arrested by cops proving it. Koplowitz, a Nyack resident and Rockland Community College student, was arrested in the fall by Orangetown Police for defacing illegally placed Vinny Raffa bill postings on the backside of the former […]