DRONE NATION: Suffern course teaches masses how to use a drone

DRONE NATION: Suffern course teaches masses how to use a drone

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANIE ROSMAN The new drone culture comes with rules. Safety rule number one is to stay behind whoever is flying the drone, never in front of the person. “If you get uncomfortable and are not sure what to do, let go, and it will hover in place,” Boston-based DARTdrones Flight Academy […]

Stony Point Lottery Player Wins on Powerball Drawing

Stony Point Lottery Player Wins on Powerball Drawing

In Wednesday’s $1.58 billion record-breaking Powerball jackpot, Lottery players in Rockland, Westchester and Orange counties won millions of dollars with five winning tickets ranging from $50,000 to $1 million. The largest winning ticket was a $1 million Powerball second prize sold at Stony Point Mini Mart at 104 West Main Street in Stony Point, Rockland […]

Coach Cordisco leaves legacy of loyalty for the ages

Coach Cordisco leaves legacy of loyalty for the ages

 BY MARC MATURO No question about it, the North Rockland community mourns the death of the great Ralph J. Cordisco, but at the same time it can only celebrate the man’s everlasting legacy and what he meant to literally thousands of people whose path he not only crossed but helped to nourish. Coach Cordisco, 97, […]

New regime officially takes control in Clarkstown

New regime officially takes control in Clarkstown

BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- It’s official, George Hoehmann is Clarkstown’s 45th supervisor. Supervisor Hoehmann was sworn in by Judge Craig Johns and then gave a State of the Town address to an overflow crowd of residents and town officials at the Town Hall’s first-floor auditorium on Monday, Jan 4. Hoehmann (R.), 50, a councilman […]

North Rockland parents rally for full-day kindergarten

BY SAMANTHA MERCADO In November of this year a group of concerned parents and community members decided that something should be done about North Rockland’s full day kindergarten issue, or lack there of. The North Rockland full day kindergarten advocates have garnered considerable support in the North Rockland community in order to start their children […]