At this week’s Haverstraw Town Board meeting, three North Rockland High School Thomas F.X. Casey Social Studies Honor Society students presented their Rockland County championship winning “Haverstraw Landslide” project to the Town Board and all in attendance at the meeting. The winning students are Emily Morgese, William Babcock and Carter Smith. Their project came in […]
THE 2017-18 STATE BUDGET IS A BIG WIN FOR NORTH ROCKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT STATEMENT FROM SENATOR WILLIAM J. LARKIN (R- 39th DISTRICT) In addition to a $1.8 million increase in total school aid funding, the state budget includes the Senate’s honest, real proposals to help the district, including $4 million in special grants specifically for North […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN Every day is Veterans Day for Anngela Vasser-Cooper, founder and CEO of the advocacy organization Women Veterans Association of Hudson Valley, Inc. An army veteran and a social worker, she knows only too well the daily challenges facing military personnel—and particularly, female personnel—returning from active duty at home or abroad. She founded […]
BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL Smiling faces made their ways into Hi-Tor Lanes in West Haverstraw on Friday night. It wasn’t just for the moonlight bowling, but also for the good cause they were supporting. A group of North Rocklanders, known as the Haunt for Hospice people, put together an event for the evening called Monster […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN Sometimes a walk in the woods is more than just a walk in the woods. For 23-year-old Alexandra Wren, a hike in the Ramapo Mountains became an expedition to the past, a discovery of her deep family roots in Rockland County. This past Tuesday, at the monthly Genealogical Society of Rockland County […]