By 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 […]
Dr. R. Steven Notley, director and professor of Nyack College’s Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins (AJCO) graduate degree program and Dr. Jeffrey P. García, AJCO professor submitted their first weekly update recently on the progress with the El-Araj Excavation in Israel led by head archaeologist, Dr. Mordechai Aviam from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology. Ms. Constance Diggs, AJCO program […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Nyack – In the wake of the gas line explosion at Nyack College last week and the revelation that it might have been the result of an excavation, many have questioned how such accidents can be foreseen in the future. However, Dig Safely NY, a not-for-profit set up in accordance with New […]
O&R PRESS RELEASE As part of its investigation into Monday’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 […]
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 College’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 […]
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&R’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 […]