BY ALEXANDRA KEZEK Black Friday is routinely the busiest shopping day of the year. Retailers stock up on inventory and their shelves, more people are hired for seasonal positions, and the promotional sales give consumers the motivation to obtain the latest new items. Major retailers in various shopping centers over the years have agreed to […]
News 12 Long Island recently announced that award-winning sportscaster Bob Wolff has been recognized by Guinness World Records for having the “longest career as a sportscaster and broadcaster.” Currently enjoying his 75th year in broadcasting, with more than 68 of those in television, Wolff is still going strong. Guinness World Records presented Wolff with the […]
Town to spend thousands of dollars in Appeal’s Court fighting Alfieri’s decision not to dismiss BY CHERYL SLAVIN A neighborly dispute concerning whether a line of evergreens and foliage at the corner of Sullivan Drive and Central Highway in Stony Point constitutes a public hazard will continue now that State Supreme Court Judge Victor Alfieri […]
By Michael Riconda NEW CITY – A Clarkstown police dispatcher was placed in an unexpected role on Saturday when she assisted with the delivery of a baby girl during a 911 call. The situation began when Nicole Felder, 25 of Pomona, attempted to transport her sister-in-law Mercedes Davila, 26 of New City, to the hospital […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN The Stony Point Town Board passed its 2015 budget by a vote of 3 to 2 Wednesday night. The final budget included changes proposed by Councilman James White to shave another $100,000, mostly through reductions to overtime allocations, and an increase in projected mortgage recording taxes. According to White, this budget will now […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN and CHERYL SLAVIN New Planet Energy told the Stony Point Planning Board last month why its application for a Green Industrial Facility Zoning & New Planet Sustainable Fuels Project differs from the one cancelled two years earlier. A former application at Holt Drive Industrial Park — called the Stony Point Waste to Energy Project […]