Hillary Lynn Stuchin and James G. Skoufis were married May 20 at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, the assemblyman announced last week. Rabbi Sarah Reines officiated the interfaith ceremony, which incorporated both Jewish and Greek traditions. The bride, 31, is an associate director in Manhattan at UJA-Federation of New York, where she focuses on public […]
BY KATHY KAHN The U.S. Coast Guard’s plan to place several “parking spots” for crude oil barges and other tankers along the banks of the Hudson is being challenged in Albany. The barge anchorage locations the Coast Guard is entertaining would permit more than 40 barges to “rest” along the river’s coastline from Yonkers to Kingston […]
BY MARISSA KRASNY From the moment you arrive at the Penguin Theatre in historic Stony Point, you can tell that you are in for a completely unique experience. The theater is small and quaint, but the energy inside is undeniable and full of eager patrons ready to see a play. This energy may also be […]
BY KATHY KAHN Stony Point’s contribution to the American Revolution cannot be understated, and the town welcomed a member of the seventh generation of Brigadier General Anthony Wayne’s family, Laura Arnett Smith, a maternal fifth great-granddaughter of the Wayne family. Arnett-Smith was welcomed to Town Hall by Supervisor Jim Monaghan and escorted to the Stony […]
Jim McDonnell of Stony Point was the special honoree at this year’s Bobby Sands Mass and Dinner hosted by the Irish Northern Aid MacBride Chapter (Rockland County) on Saturday, April 29. It’s the 36th annual Bobby Sands event in Rockland County, held in commemoration of the famed 1981 Irish hunger strikers who stood in defiance […]
By Col. Andrew J. Smith This month I decided to report on a place which has been on my list for some time, namely, the Fireside Steak Pub on Route 9W in Stony Point. It is owned and operated by the Javanese family who are lifelong Stony Pointers and always helpful and supportive of the […]