WILL A NEW “CLARKSTOWN CITY” SAVE ONE TOWN TENS OF MILLIONS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REST OF ROCKLAND?

WILL A NEW “CLARKSTOWN CITY” SAVE ONE TOWN TENS OF MILLIONS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REST OF ROCKLAND?

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Can you see a future “City of Clarkstown” or perhaps a “Clarkstown City?” On Tuesday night, Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack said in his state of the town address that Clarkstown is committed to officially studying the ramifications of becoming a city.
Gromack said as a city, Clarkstown could collect its own sales tax, […]

Timelines — 1/5

Nyack to send direct notification to residents during times of emergency Following the failure of NY-Alert to notify thousands of residents after local water was found to be tainted back in June, the Village of Nyack began to look elsewhere for a means of efficient communication. Now, while continuing to use NY-Alert, the village will […]

City of Clarkstown in the future?

Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack said last night in his state of the town address that Clarkstown will study the ramifications of becoming a city. He said as a city Clarkstown could collect their own sales tax instead of seeing county government take virtually all of it. Right now Clarkstown, especially the West Nyack Pyramid Mall, […]

CHIEF RIPS SERGEANT FOR ATTACKING SHERIFF

It was supposed to be a smooth goodbye for longtime Sheriff James Kralik, but Clarkstown Sergeant and media liaison Harry Baumann changed all that when he spilled his guts to Steve Lieberman of the Journal News about Kralik’s supposedly bloated budgets and “empire-building” ambitions, including a supposed desire to consolidate all police departments into one. Baumann lamented […]

CLARKSTOWN POLICE REPORT DWI ARRESTS

In conjunction with the Rockland County Sheriff Department and the Rockland County STOP DWI conducted a DWI checkpoint on Rt. 59 and Crossfields Blvd on December 17, 2011 between the hours of 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. The result of the DWI checkpoint was 5 arrests. They are as follows: At 12:56 a.m. John Omalley, […]

Dec. 30 Last Day to Walk Around the Old Nanuet Mall

Dec. 30 Last Day to Walk Around the Old Nanuet Mall

BY MAUREEN MOLLAHAN The Nanuet Mall was the center of discussion at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Clarkstown Town Board. Plans remain to tear down and rebuild the mall starting January of 2012. Tom Schneider, an Executive Vice President of Simon Property INC. explained a few designs of the changes that would be made to […]