STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHERYL SLAVIN Eighteen months after Hurricane Sandy tore a swath of destruction through the Stony Point waterfront, the Town Board is finally on track to remove the last of the irreparably damaged buildings by the start of summer. Currently, the deadline for homeowners to repair or remove the structures before the […]
 Group set to meet with leaders of Assembly, Senate BY BILL DEMAREST NYACK – A group of about 30 Rockland County ministers from different churches and faiths are traveling to Albany on Wednesday morning to meet with leaders of the state Senate and Assembly, who will hear pleas from the ministers for state intervention in […]
From Www.SloatsburgVillage.Com The cards are being shuffled and four lucky winners are gambling on a winning hand in gaming in New York. The Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center and Genting Americas, part of an international gaming conglomerate, hosted an afternoon meet and greet at the popular ski center that abuts Sterling Forest and is adjacent to […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN On the weekend of May 3—4 the New York tri-state Irish music community, along with family, friends and supporters, will put on the largest Irish music festival ever staged in this area to benefit fellow musician and North Rockland High School teacher Billy Keenan and his family. Three coordinated concerts in three […]
TerraCycle has announced its Recycled Playground Challenge – a new initiative in partnership with Colgate and ShopRite to help encourage healthy smiles and environments among school children and consumers. Beginning now through June 30, schools located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut and Maryland are eligible to compete for a new playground made […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Historians from around the region toured several historic Dutch sandstone homes and barns throughout Rockland County this week, admiring their architecture and contemplating ways in which some of those threatened with destruction might be saved and even preserved. The tours were organized by the Historical Society of […]