Documents from an internal investigation into a February bus fire in Pearl River reveal that the bus driver called Brega dispatch complaining of strange odors emanating from the rear wheel area prior to the fire. Records show that when a perfunctory inspection failed to reveal anything suspicious beyond the odor, the dispatcher instructed the driver […]
COLUMN AND PHOTOS BY BOB BAIRD On Friday mornings at Grace’s Thrift Shop on Main Street in Nyack, one thing is certain. In a back corner of the consignment shop filled with pots, pans, glassware and assorted clothes and trinkets, there’s Ruth Butler taking tags off items and bagging each customer’s newest treasure. She’s an […]
The SMART Sales Unit of the Clarkstown Police Department conducts monthly enforcement compliance checks of local licensed retailers of alcohol products and conducts subsequent court ordered educational classes in the safe and lawful sale of these products. CPD announced that this week so far the the Clarkstown Police SMART Sales Unit in conjunction with Officers […]
BY MARIA BROWNSELL An unusually large amount of people packed into the town hall auditorium for the Town of Clarkstown’s Town Board Meeting on August 5. The buzz around the room was about Supervisor Alex Gromack and Councilwoman Shirley Lasker’s sudden epiphanies on the matter of term limits and also a proposed senior housing project […]
BY BARRY WARNER A lot of kids are participating in The Orangeburg Library’s free science-inspired summer reading program, “Fizz, Boom, Read.” The program is designed to keep youngsters occupied with fun things to do while school is out of session. Children’s Librarian Angela Krajcar said, “During the summer, even with the longer days and less- […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN The first of two mobile, river-based floating concrete batch plants arrived at the New TZ Bridge project site last month for the new bridge’s in-river work, and is now in operation by Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC (TZC). It can cast about 125 cubic yards of concrete per hour; a […]