BY JANIE ROSMAN An easier commute to work awaits New City resident Mike Benowitz. “It will be interesting to figure out how to get to White Plains from Rockland,” Benowitz said. “It can take up to an hour to get from White Plains to the bridge at 5 p.m.” He’s also looking forward to new […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN When she turned 80 a few years earlier, Valley Cottage resident Joyce DeSousa took a hot air balloon ride in Arizona. “This was great, and a few of my grandchildren went with me,” she said, laughing at the memory. DeSousa, 85, has been volunteering with a Shalvah (Hospice-like) visitation program in nursing […]
BY MARIA BROWNSELL A special presentation of the Clarkstown Police Department Youth Academy graduates opened up the town board meeting on February 3. Sergeant Kieran Dwyer. He explained how the program began over fifteen years ago to get local high school students to have more knowledge about how the police force works. Over a 10 […]
On February 4 at about 4:55 a.m. the Town of Ramapo Police Department and emergency medical personnel found a deceased 47-year-old in a room at Howard Johnson’s hotel in Airmont. The Rockland County Medical Examiner’s office assisted the Ramapo Police. There is no criminality suspected and the deceased appears to have died from natural causes. […]
BY CAROL McILMURRAY Orangetown police officers responded to a report of a man breaking into parked cars on Sunset Road in Blauvelt at 3:47 a.m. Monday morning. The suspect later identified as Bassem Yousef, 28, of Braircliff Manor, NY, led officers on a foot chase through local residents’ backyards, woods, and a stream between Sunset […]
NEW CITY – The Clarkstown Police Department announced on Monday that they were investigating a spate of incidents which involved counterfeit $100 bills passed at commercial locations around Nanuet. The first two incidents occurred at locations on Route 59 last week. The first involved a female suspect who passed a counterfeit on January 26 to […]