New City Free Library and the Valley Cottage Free Library will receive over $100,000 in public library construction grant funding. The grants will allow the libraries to make renovations, giving them the opportunity to enhance and develop their facilities. The New City Free Library will receive $67,000 for renovations to the audio/visual area, allowing all […]
More than 3,000 Orange, Rockland & Sullivan residents walked for their hearts last weekend at the Tri-County Heart Walk at Lake Welch Beach at Harriman State Park. The Heart Walk is the American Heart Association’s (AHA) largest annual fund raiser – last year’s event raised more than $365,000 for AHA research and programs. “Heart disease […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Town of Orangetown decided Tuesday evening to sell 26 acres of prime vacant land on the banks of Lake Tappan in Orangeburg, and is seeking bids from interested developers. The town has not set a price for the property, and will solicit information from developers […]
They are lovers of larceny but there is no evidence this wannabe Bonnie and Old Clyde duo are anything more than “friends.” On April 27, 25-year-old Jessica Rodriguez of 406 Call Hollow Rd. in Stony Point and her pal, 55-year-old Jeffrey T. Feuerstack, of 1 Squadron Blvd. in New City, were busted by Stony Point […]
BY ANTHONY MELE Any political analyst with a keen eye for observation and knowledge of history can plainly recognize it was the Tea Party phenomenon that rescued the Republican Party in the 2010 mid-term elections. The phenomenon described as “Tea Party” swept across America, as a great awakening of political enlightenment, which seeded the Republican […]
BY ERIN MAHER This past “Thirsty Thursday,” May 3, saw the streets and bars of Nyack painted bright neon yellow. St. Thomas Aquinas College Senior class of 2012 was celebrating their last night out of fun together in Rockland at the third annual senior bar crawl. St. Thomas Aquinas College, also referred to as “STAC,” […]