Hello readers! Below you’ll find our live blog for Election Day 2012 with all the latest information. Keep it here for up to the minute information from our news team. Also feel free to leave a comment that you voted. Enjoy and may the best candidate win!
BY MICHAEL CAHILL With Election Day on November 6 fast approaching, one of the local races heating up this fall is the race for New York’s new 38th State Senate District. The Democratic incumbent and Rockland native, Senator David Carlucci, is being challenged by Republican and former Ossining village trustee and deputy mayor, Janis Castaldi. […]
Woman Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion in New City A Stony Point woman pled guilty on Monday to a charge of federal tax evasion at her New City hair salon. Margaret Viola, 64, owned Rojo Salon and, according to prosecutors, did not pay $14,700 in income taxes and $68,000 in payroll taxes from 2004 to […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE This production at the Westchester Broadway Theatre, the 177th in their history, ranks among their best. Bill Nolte leads the cast of the classic “Fiddler on the Roof,” giving an outstanding performance as Tevye, the dairyman. With direction and choreography by Richard Stafford, Fiddler entranced the packed house at Friday’s press performance. Nolte’s […]
Rockland County learned this week of its first human case of West Nile Virus, which was recently diagnosed in a 50-year-old resident. “West Nile Virus has had a presence in our county since 1999, in the bird and mosquito population. We are grateful that our first documented human case was a mild infection and our […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Richard Stafford is just finishing up directing “Can Can” at the Elmsford venue and preparing for rehearsals for his next show, Jerome Robbins’ musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” which begins today Thursday, October 11. Stafford says Andrew Mayer, who will play the Fiddler, is a great violinist and actor. He also […]