On February 22, 2012 the Clarkstown Police reported a burglary at the Orange & Rockland Utility sub station 195 Rt. 59 West Nyack. Approximately 2,592 linear feet of copper wire valued at approximately $50,000 was taken. Through an extensive investigation on March 28, 2012 Joseph Squillante, age 47, from Stony Point was arrested by the […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN Community comes together to restore park’s hurricane damage On Sunday afternoon, Stony Point’s Eccher Park came alive with volunteers from five different counties who came to help restore the damage Hurricane Irene wreaked back in August. Each year the Starbucks in New City hosts an Earth Day event. Coming off a successful […]
Stony Point’s historic Pyngyp School is being restored by a dedicated group of volunteers who are holding a series of publicity and fund raising events this year to continue the progress they have already made. The Pyngyp Schoolhouse was built more than a century ago, one of nearly 100 such crude one-room wooden schoolhouses that […]
The Village of West Haverstraw, in partnership with the Rockland County Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Places to Live, Work and Play initiative, broke ground on a multi-generational activity space at Peck’s Pond, 130 Samsondale Avenue, in West Haverstraw on Monday, April 16. The new space at Peck’s Pond will offer residents of all ages […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MICHAEL CAHILL Haverstraw residents and officials gathered at Bowline Point Park Wednesday morning for the groundbreaking of the Haverstraw Landslide Memorial. The famous landslide, which was a major factor in shaping the history, character and layout of the village, occurred on January 8, 1906. The landslide claimed the lives of 22 […]
Recently appointed Councilman James McDonnell says he’s here to help, so stop shouting at him! He’s only human, after all, holding political office doesn’t make one superman. At the end of this week’s Stony Point board meeting McDonnell, specifically requesting the media’s attention, said to Stony Pointers, “Please don’t come in shouting” [saying things like […]