BY CHERYL SLAVIN At Tuesday’s meeting of the Stony Point Town Board, Councilman Tom Basile introduced the Volunteer Emergency Services Resolution as a way to recognize the hard work and important contributions of active volunteers in good standing with the Fire District, Ambulance Corps and Auxiliary Police. The resolution would provide for discounts on fees […]
BY BARRY WARNER New City – The 2014 Nick Serra Invention and Design Convention for grades one to six was a home-based project designed to help students’ problem-solving skills. Each participating student developed an original idea for an invention from the concept stage to the completed model project. Criteria for the judging were three-fold: originality […]
Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato hosted a naturalization ceremony on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, New York. Piperato administered the Oath of Allegiance to 50 new citizens from 20 different countries. Dr. Dennis Mao, Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department and Trauma Services was the keynote speaker. Rockland County Executive […]
Community gives input on proposed projects BY CHERYL SLAVIN The Stony Point New York Rising Community Reconstruction Committee held its third public meeting on Monday, February 24. The 13-member committee, co-chaired by Gurran Kane and Steven Scurti, has been meeting regularly about every two weeks since the fall to devise a community reconstruction plan that […]
Ramapo Dental Care, located at 29 North Airmont Road in Suffern welcomes Robert H. Friedman, D.M.D., an experienced general dentist, to its practice. Dr. Friedman received his pre-dental education from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey, completing a B.S. in Biology. He graduated cum laude and was member of the Phi Zeta Kappa Honor […]
BY MARIA BROWNSELL On May 31, 2009, Jimmy McNicholas was crossing Middletown Road in Pearl River to get to his car when he was struck by a hit and run driver. Five years later police still have been unable to identify the driver of the dark SUV that struck McNicholas. He was only 36-years-old when […]