BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Haverstraw’s RCC extension will host event that’s been held in Dutchess County in previous years. The 6th Annual Hudson Valley Entrepreneurial Conference and Expo will be held Friday, May 11, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Rockland Community College Haverstraw Extension Campus in the Village of Haverstraw. This is the first […]
BY JESSICA DOWNER Residents of West Haverstraw gathered at the Village Hall for the first board meeting of the month to discuss fire department districting and the growing stray cat population. The meeting opened with a report from the police department, showing a total of $10,354 in fines last month. A letter from Orange & […]
BY SHERLY JOURDAIN A spaghetti dinner and silent auction took place at the West Haverstraw Community Center on March 4 to benefit the Fair Grounds II Disaster Fund. The Local 844 Women’s Committee from the Civil Service Employee Association (CSEA) and the American Legion Leo Ladders Post 130 of Thiells coordinated the event to raise […]
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced this week that Rony Veras (DOB 05/28/89) of 38 Conklin Avenue, Haverstraw, New York was convicted after a jury trial of the sole count of the indictment charging him with: One count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a class “C” Violent Felony […]
A forward thinking (and backward looking) monthly column on zoning, planning, and development by Jared Rodriguez, a Stony Point native and recent NYU grad schooled in civil engineering, architecture, and real estate development. Last month I discussed the world that my grandparents and great-grandparents left behind. All that survives of it are our old downtowns, […]
BY SHERLY JOURDAIN On Tuesday, the Rockland Water Coalition gathered a large crowd together with regional environmental and local groups against United Water’s Haverstraw Water Supply Project. They met at a press conference prior to a 2 p.m. public hearing on the project held by the DEC. The project is commonly referred to as the […]