Critic says responses are evasive BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Two Tappan Residents are questioning Orangetown officials about the existence of old sewer lines at an abandoned Army base on Western Highway, and are not satisfied with answers the town has given them so far, claiming the responses are more mystifying than […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES A project to improve the historic 350-year-old Tappan Green that was estimated to cost nearly $1 million is now well under way, and is expected to be finished by this summer at a total cost of only about half that amount. A synopsis of the project was […]
Town Officials Negotiating with State over Former RCPC BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown is moving aggressively ahead with the planned purchase of another 100 acres of land at the mostly shuttered Rockland Psychiatric Center campus in Orangeburg, even before it has decided what to do with 348 acres of similar land […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES In a surprise move at an otherwise routine annual reorganization meeting the Orangetown Town Board voted unanimously Tuesday to switch the nights of its meetings to Thursdays for the remainder of 2012. For more than five decades, the board had met on Monday evenings four nights a […]
Residents to Honor Slain Student Paula Bohovesky BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Hundreds and possibly thousands of Pearl River and Orangetown residents are expected to take part in a mass “Freeze Mob” in downtown Pearl River Saturday, to both honor the memory of slain local high school student Paula Bohovesky, and to […]
Council Delays New Sewer Hire, Setting Meeting Dates BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Confusion appeared to be the over-arching theme of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Orangetown Town Board, as the council tried vainly but fruitlessly to clear its calendar at the last scheduled gathering of the year. A new council with three […]