The Rockland Department of Public Transportation announced this week that ten vendors have downloaded the RFB from the Purchasing Department website for the county’s fixed-route bus service. The RFB was issued on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 and bids are due back on March 16, 2012. The county expects to see a number of competitive bids […]
On Sunday the Haverstraw Brick Museum will hold a presentation and display to celebrate Presidents Week and Black History. The featured speaker will be Frances Pratt, president of the Nyack branch of the NAACP. Mrs. Pratt traveled from North Carolina to New York as a child. Her Civil Rights work earned her the 1986 Heroine […]
The Beltone Hearing Care Center in New City opened its doors recently in a large grand opening ceremony, drawing in local officials and residents. Belltone is noted for having the latest in digital hearing aid technology available to its patients, including its “True” devices. These virtually invisible hearing aids are bluetooth compatible and can wirelessly […]
Last Thursday marked the grand opening celebration for the new IHOP restaurant on the fourth floor of the mall in West Nyack. The restaurant is adjacent to the IMAX theatres and close to the new Levity comedy club. It will be open 24 hours on weekends and will be open for breakfast at 7 a.m. […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Speakerbot, Wobblesauce and Coda’s Odyssey (headed up by Nyack’s own Frank Coda) are the headliners this Friday, February 17 at the popular Pearl River restaurant and club Emmett’s Castle, in what press agent Seth Menaker said will be a night of killer music and prime vibes. Speakerbot, the robot DJs alias […]
New York State announced this week that a new law to prevent distracted driving, has resulted in 118,757 tickets since July 2011 for using an electronic handheld device while driving. Governor Cuomo introduced legislation to strengthen enforcement of texting-while-driving violations in June 2011, and signed the new penalties into law in July 2011. The legislation […]