Rockland BOCES students participating in the District-Based Therapeutic Support program at Clarkstown’s Link Elementary School shared a message of kindness during a special assembly on May 26. Link students are encouraged to become better global citizens by taking actions that improve the school community and their families. This year, the BOCES fourth and fifth graders […]
Local Student to Train for Olympics Maria Garcia, a senior at North Rockland High School, decided to shift her dream from studying nursing at Dominican College to training for the Olympics in racewalking. Garcia, 17, accepted an academic scholarship for the fall and planned to solely focus on becoming a nurse. She was preparing to […]
The Town of Clarkstown recently held their annual Police Awards ceremony. Town officials and District Attorney Tom Zugibe were on hand to present “Officer of the Year” to Thomas Flanagan. At the same event the town officially retired 10-year-old “King,” one of the department’s canine officers.
Pearl River Public Library [PRPL] has announced the impending grand opening of the “Learning Lab @ PRPL.” Following a year of extremely popular computer classes for kids, teens and adults, the director and the Library Board have decided to continue and to expand computer learning at the library. The biggest part of this expansion is […]
Haverstraw’s Cub Scout Pack 165 planted a 12-foot tree down at Bowline Point Town Park on May 21 as part of their Scout conservation project.

Town Supervisor Howard T. Phillips was on hand and accepted the tree from the boys. Said Phillips, “For generations to come, these Cub Scouts will be able to tell their family how […]
Frank Chillino, 66, of 15 Clark Road in Stony Point, continued his long run of lewd behavior and other petty harassment of neighbors, getting arrested on Monday, Memorial Day, May 30 for taking a relaxing walk around his front yard completely in the nude. Responding Stony Point PD officers said they saw the defendant walking around the outside area of his […]