BBB ANNOUNCES TOP 10 COMPLAINTS OF 2015

Financial Services comes in first for seventh year running Better Business Bureau Serving Metropolitan New York has announced its annual Top 10 complaint categories, listing those business categories which received the most customer complaints in 2015. For the seventh year in a row, Financial Services was the most complained about business category, with 6,103 complaints filed by […]

Assembly Proposes $30M to Fight Heroin Epidemic

The New York State Assembly is backing $30 million in funding intended to combat the growing heroin addiction epidemic in the state, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced on Tuesday. The proposal, part of the Assembly’s one-house budget proposal, would expand treatment and support programs for heroin and opiate abuse. Assemblyman James Skoufis (D), whose district includes […]

Cranston pays up, avoids jail

Cranston pays up, avoids jail

The former director of T.J. McGowan and Sons Funeral Home has managed to avoid a stay in state prison by repaying $100,000 to the longtime area company. Donald Cranston, 52, of Haverstraw, received a sentence of five years probation as he pled guilty to second-degree grand larceny. According to authorities Cranston had defrauded his employer […]

Correction: Village not the owner of Main St. strip mall

BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NYACK- The Subway franchise on Main St. in Nyack was recently evicted, however, the main street strip mall is not owned by the Village of Nyack as reported last week, but by Tali Plaza of Nyack, LLC. The village owns the surrounding parking lot. The error was caused by a prior misreport […]

DEMEZA’S WORST MOMENT YET

Demeza Delhomme has strung together infamy after infamy since taking over as mayor of Spring Valley in December 2014, but his most infamous moment yet may have taken place at this week’s village board meeting. Village resident Reginald Alfred, 48, stood before the board and accused Delhomme of trying to wreck his home by sleeping […]