NEED HEALTH INSURANCE?

(Health Dept. Press Release) Pomona, NY – Health Insurance doesn’t have to cost a lot . That’s why NY State of Health was created, to make sure all New Yorkers can get this important benefit. Even though the open enrollment period for 2014 has ended, you still may be able to enroll and get financial […]

UPCYCLING IN HAVERSTRAW

UPCYCLING IN HAVERSTRAW

Join volunteers for a cleanup in the Village of Haverstraw on September 13. A group will be meeting at the clock tower on New Main St. across from Haverstraw Village Hall at 10 a.m. and cleaning up all along the Greenway and at Emeline Park. They’ll also be looking for items that can be “upcycled” […]

ROBOT CRAFTS AT SLOATSBURG LIBRARY

ROBOT CRAFTS AT SLOATSBURG LIBRARY

Instructor Carolyn Travers taught the children to make their own simple robots using cardboard tubing, string, colored paper and glue at a Sloatsburg Library workshop recently. The participants learned that some complex robots are able to be programmed to walk, dance, play soccer plus explore the bottom of the sea or the rocky surface of […]

TIMELINES 8/28/14

Ex-employee damages property of former Airmont employer Police arrested a man on Sunday afternoon who they claim smashed the outside of an Airmont restaurant where he used to work over an alleged wage dispute. Officers arrested Jose Vasquez Salinas, 25 of Suffern, after they found him brandishing a bat and hatchet at The Turn Restaurant […]

Congress Shouldn’t Compromise a Key Missile Defense Program

BY REBECCA GRANT To trim the budget, lawmakers may suspend a critical element of America’s missile defenses. But gutting this core national security technology — the “Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle” — would seriously undermine national security. Missile defense has never played a more important role in protecting Americans and keeping global threats in check. The EKV […]