Edited from Nyack Free Press; Photos from Kenny Flynn and Nyack Free Press ORANGEBURG – Twenty-five residents of the Cortwood Village senior housing complex in Orangeburg were displaced by a fire there Saturday night, July 25, with the American Red Cross called in to assist them with shelter. The residents were affected by a fire […]
PRESS RELEASE Ginsburg Development Companies (GDC) and Haverstraw village officials this week celebrated the completion of the final phase of the new Haverstraw Waterfront Promenade Park, a half-mile long village park adjacent to GDC’s Harbors-at-Haverstraw residential development. Martin Ginsburg, principal of GDC, turned over a symbolic key to Haverstraw Village Mayor Michael Kohut in a […]
STORY BY JANIE ROSMAN If you blinked, then you missed the school board meeting. That’s because it didn’t happen. “What we witnessed last night was this board’s sheer arrogance and blatant disregard for the community,” Eric Grossfeld, Co-founder of the Get Up, Stand Up: East Ramapo advocacy group, said after board members canceled the meeting […]
State capital funding a no-go without Abato’s approval BY MICHAEL RICONDA Suffern – State capital funding for portable flood barriers in Suffern’s most vulnerable areas is not likely to go forward, owing to a single nay vote from an otherwise unanimous Village Board. According to Suffern Trustee Edward Markunas, Suffern Mayor Patricia Abato’s signature was […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN The Nyack Chamber of Commerce’s 4th annual Classic Car Night turned the heart of the village into a trip down memory lane. “Owners come to display their cars…it’s not a competition,” explained Chamber Vice President Roger S. Cohen. Main Street from Franklin Street to Broadway was bustling with people, […]
BY KATHY KAHN Tomkins Memorial Church has been standing in Tomkins Cove since 1840; first on Church and Spring St. in the hamlet and since 1973 at its current prominent location on Route 9W. If its small but active congregation has its way, it will be there for another 175 years. The church on July […]