BY MICHAEL CAHILL Lowdown on April 24 Stony Point Town Board meeting The Stony Point Town Board met Tuesday evening for its regular meeting where it approved creating a license with Rockland County Meals on Wheels to begin serving meals to seniors in the cafeteria of the RHO Building. Stony Point Town Supervisor Geoff Finn […]
Smart Growth is Not What it Seems By Lynn Teger, Teger Commercial LLC What I cherish most about the good old days is the innocence and the freedoms once enjoyed. Taxes were low. People could keep more of their hard earned money. Mothers were able to stay home to raise a family. Keeping more of […]
BY JARED RODRIGUEZ Ellen Donovan read about a local group of Newburgh residents that were tired of seeing shuttered store windows, high taxes, and growing economic malaise. These Orange County residents joined together to create what is now known as a Cash Mob. A Cash Mob is a lot like a flash mob. A large […]
Stony Point’s historic Pyngyp School is being restored by a dedicated group of volunteers who are holding a series of publicity and fund raising events this year to continue the progress they have already made. The Pyngyp Schoolhouse was built more than a century ago, one of nearly 100 such crude one-room wooden schoolhouses that […]
The Village of West Haverstraw, in partnership with the Rockland County Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Places to Live, Work and Play initiative, broke ground on a multi-generational activity space at Peck’s Pond, 130 Samsondale Avenue, in West Haverstraw on Monday, April 16. The new space at Peck’s Pond will offer residents of all ages […]
BY JARED RODRIGUEZ A forward thinking (and backward looking) monthly column on zoning, planning, and development by Jared Rodriguez, a Stony Point native schooled in civil engineering, architecture, and real estate development. In “Back to Our Roots” Parts 1 and 2, I discussed the virtues of the good ole days we’ve left behind in Rockland […]