Sister Catherine Margaret Carden, MM, Catechetical Trainer, Local ESL Program Founder and Missioner Dies at 93

Sister Catherine Margaret Carden, MM, Catechetical Trainer, Local ESL Program Founder and Missioner Dies at 93

Maryknoll, NY-Sister Catherine Margaret Carden, MM, a catechetical trainer, local ESL program founder, and missioner serving in Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Hawaii, and New York, died July 25, 2013, at Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care IV. She was 93 years old and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 73 years. Born on March 27, 1920, in Carbondale, […]

Update on Piermont Boating Tragedy

BY BILL DEMAREST Additional charges are being considered against the Nyack man who drove the boat in Friday night’s double fatal accident on the Hudson River near the Tappan Zee Bridge, according to the Rockland County district attorney. D.A. Thomas Zugibe said on Monday his office is working with the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department and […]

Hudson Tragedy

Jojo K. John, 35, of Nyack was charged after rescuers pulled the body of bride-to-be Lindsey Stewart, 30, of Piermont from the Hudson River not far from the Tappan Zee Marina in Piermont at 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Read more: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130727/NEWS01/130727003/VIDEO-Hudson-boat-crash-Piermont-bride-s-body-found

READER TAKES LOOK AT THE SPARACO FINANCIAL FILING

Mr. Skriloff, Knowing your reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism, and having seen your initial reporting on Legislator Sparaco’s recent fundraiser, I thought you might appreciate and find some substantially newsworthy items from his recent filing. 1) Someone was blowing smoke up your paper’s proverbial rear with the “$25,000 fundraiser” line. His campaign filings reveal that […]

Automatic License Plate Readers

BY MATTHEW SHI According to a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), police departments across the United States have adopted the use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The police departments use these ALPRs to store information about people’s movements and locations in databases without the people’s knowledge. The report revealed that […]