HAVERSTRAW – A local man has been arrested and charged with an unemployment benefits scam which reaped hundreds of thousands in ill-gotten gains for out-of-country beneficiaries within the past four years. Ramon Delacruz, 36, was arrested early Monday morning by authorities with the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office’s Special Investigation Unit, the New York State […]
NANUET – A 25-year-old woman was taken into police custody on Sunday after she reportedly stole a woman’s purse and assaulted two Fairway employees in a desperate attempt to escape from the Nanuet supermarket. Justine Peterkin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reportedly took a shopper’s purse while it rested in the woman’s handbag. A loss prevention employee […]
The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Party safely and wear green!
BY KATHY KAHN With a full house eager to hear how the state’s finances are being managed—and also just as eager to hear how New York is spending taxpayer dollars—Comptroller Tom DiNapoli spoke for 45 minutes March 19 at  luncheon held by the Rockland Business Association at The Crowne Plaza in Suffern. Proposed monitoring board […]
A $75,000 state grant recently procured by the Town of Stony Point toward the construction of a skate park and a dog park will ultimately go toward only the dog park. In 2014, after lobbying State Senator William Larkin’s office, the town was able to gain the $75,000 in funds through a Dormitory Authority grant. […]
A night of inappropriate intrusions into Airmont homes is going to cost a scared burglar over a decade of his life in prison. Jude Bonneau, 50, of 45 Parkway Trailer Court, Pomona was sentenced this week for a case in which he burglarized one home and then was chased off by a homeowner after entering […]