The Friends of the Orangetown Historical Museum & Archives announces the Spring Antiques & Collectibles Sale on Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Orangetown Museum grounds, 196 Chief Bill Harris Way, Orangeburg, NY featuring: Fine antiques, bric-a-brac furniture, crafts, historians, books, toys, silver jewelry, china music and more. The museum’s groundbreaking […]
Hundreds gather in support of “no knock” law BY KATHY KAHN The organizers of the newly formed Preserve Orangetown grassroots advocacy group took their cue from Preserve Ramapo. Thursday evening, May 12, Preserve Orangetown held its first organizational meeting at the Elks Lodge in Nanuet. Many were told about the meeting but organizers didn’t anticipate the more […]
By Kathy Kahn Like the proverbial lizard wearing a velvet glove, Ramapo supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence seems just as smug and self-assured as he did before U.S. Attorney Preet Bahrara handed down a 30-page criminal indictment against him. The town board’s Wednesday, May 11 meeting, hosted by the 16-year incumbent supervisor, was a bitter brawl between those […]
A 5K Fun Run sponsored by Senator David Carlucci will be held next Thursday, May 19 in support of the Larissa Karasik Foundation. Sadly, last May in Warren County, New York, Felix Festa Middle School student Larissa Karasik was killed when a vehicle driven by a drunk driver drove through a stop sign and crashed […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Pearl River area residents who have long opposed a planned 24-hour warehouse and storage facility in a wooded area of the hamlet center were dismayed last week when the Orangetown Planning Board voted 4-1, with one abstention and one absence, to grant final site plan approval to […]
Jasper is a 4-year-old female DSH who was surrendered to the shelter due to personal problems of her owner. She is blind in one eye and might do best in a home with teens and older because she is on the small and independent side and needs some time to warm up to people. But […]