BY MICHAEL RICONDA Suffern – The Squire’s Gate community in Suffern saw very good news this week as it both received additional flood remediation support from the state and received a postponement on an anticipated flood zoning change. NY Rising will give Suffern $3 million in reconstruction aid out of funds designated for the Lower […]
Fears bridge will collapse BY JANIE ROSMAN Is the Tappan Zee Bridge safe? Absolutely, the Thruway Authority said. No way, Manhattan construction attorney Barry B. LePatner contradicted. “I try never to go over it, except if somebody kidnaps me and drugs me,” LePatner told WCBS 880′s Wayne Cabot last January. Fear of crossing grips him so […]
Clarkstown school district voters OK bond issue in record turnout BY BILL DEMAREST CONGERS – Anxious Congers residents who have been fighting to save their local elementary were relieved last Tuesday night when a Clarkstown school district public vote overwhelmingly approved a $6.5 million bond issue to repair the aging Congers Elementary School. The school […]
By Jeannine Rippa On Thursday morning, Jan. 30, 2014, Rockland County Executive Ed Day was named principal for the day of St. Paul Catholic School in Valley Cottage, NY. Ed Day visited with the children in almost all of the classrooms. As principal, Ed Day made an announcement, on the loud speaker to […]
Dozens of family members and friends of Catherine Seminara gathered together at Pasta Cucina in Stony Point Sunday to celebrate a long life well-lived. Catherine turned 100 this week and is still going strong. Catherine, who moved to West Haverstraw from Pennsylvania at age 16 in 1930 and married Fred D. Seminara in 1934, lived […]
They’ve done it again! The boys over on Hoover Dr. rallied hundreds of Stony Pointers and other local folks to take a February dive into the Hudson, all in the name of helping out a youngster named Olivia Barron. It’s the tradition that started in 1999 when John Corcoran, John Fox and other wild […]