Nyack College heads to NYC

Nyack College heads to NYC

Byย Joe Kuhn The town and village leadership of Orangetown and Nyack were blindsided Wednesday when Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary announced that it has applied to the State of New York to operate solely from its campus in Lower Manhattan. Starting in the fall of 2019, all Rockland County campus academic programs of the […]

Update on Nyack College El-Araj Excavation in Holy Land

Update on Nyack College El-Araj Excavation in Holy Land

Dr. R. Steven Notley, director and professor of Nyack Collegeโ€™s Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins (AJCO) graduate degree program andย Dr. Jeffrey P. Garcรญa, AJCO professor submitted their first weekly update recently on theย progress with the El-Araj Excavation in Israelย led by head archaeologist, Dr. Mordechai Aviam from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology.ย Ms. Constance Diggs,ย AJCO program […]

O&R: GAS PIPE DAMAGE CONSISTENT WITH BACKHOE HIT

O&R PRESS RELEASE As part of its investigation into Mondayโ€™s explosion at Nyack College, O&R used an industrial vacuum truck to uncover a section of gas service pipe from an area that appeared to have been recently excavated. A visual examination of the service pipe revealed damage consistent with the pipe being struck and pulled […]

THIRD EXPLOSION IN 18 MONTHS

THIRD EXPLOSION IN 18 MONTHS

String of gas explosions shake up Rockland BY MICHAEL RICONDA Rockland keeps exploding and O&R says each incident is unrelated. A probable natural gas explosion in one of Nyack Collegeโ€™s buildings late on the morning of June 4 injured eight people and required a response from emergency personnel and extensive work by Orange & Rockland […]

O&R Investigating Disaster at Nyack College

Press Release from O&R Damage to a gas service line that feeds a Nyack College gym from a gas main on South Highland Drive is the primary focus of O&Rโ€™s investigation in the wake of a blast yesterday that injured eight and heavily damaged a Nyack College building. How that damage occurred remains an open […]