Coptic Christians march on White House A crowd of Egyptian-American Coptic Christians marched on the White House on February 24 to protest the perceived inaction of President Barack Obama in the face of increasing persecution of Middle Eastern Christians by ISIS. The group wore orange jumpsuits during the protest to raise awareness to the continued […]
Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 8 at 2 a.m. for Daylight Savings.
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NYACK- With temperatures below freezing, droves of “crazy but warm hearted people” came out to participate in the Eighth Annual Penguin Plunge on the icy banks of the Hudson River at Memorial Park in Nyack this past Sunday, March 1. As snow began to […]
FROM SPPD The Stony Point Police Department announces the successful revival of a 19-year-old female with the use of Narcan. Stony Point Police were called to a home on Lake Road in Stony Point at 1:55 a.m. on March 1, 2015. The victim was reported to be having difficulty breathing and a possible seizure. The officer found the […]
WHITE PLAINS – Jurors today returned a guilty verdict for Lacey Spears, the Chestnut Ridge mother accused of poisoning her 5-year-old son Garnett by introducing a lethal dose of salt through his feeding tube. Following a 14-day trial at Westchester County Courthouse and two days of deliberation by a jury, Spears, 27, was convicted of […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN At a special meeting on February 24, the North Rockland Central School Board unanimously voted in favor of extending a school tax exemption to eligible North Rockland veteran homeowners. Also known as the Alternative Veterans Exemption, this break on school taxes is as a result of a 2013 amendment to a New York […]