Lego lovers of all ages, rejoice! Your favorite building blocks are ready for inspection. After being delayed a year by the 2020 Pandemic, LEGOLAND New York officially opened its doors on Friday, July 9. (An earlier “soft” opening allowed season passholders and a limited number of ticketed guests to visit.) The first theme park opened […]
To the Editor, Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York’s electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S. The plants annually avoid an astonishing 16 million tons of carbon emissions that would be released into the air we breathe […]
BY KATHY KAHN What began as a New Year’s Eve party with over 200 underage drinkers in an upscale Orange County home ended on January 1, 2017 with a young volunteer fireman, Justin Speights, dead from knife wounds received when trying to break up a fight. Speights was trying to calm things down when Jauntae […]
While Rockland County has its fair share of fun things to do, sometimes it’s only natural to take a drive out of town for a day or night. Loads of cool happenings going on in Orange County this summer have been posted to the calendar at www.OrangeTourism.org, as well as a wide array of attractions, […]
BY JAMIE KEMPTON Monroe-Woodbury sweeps team titles in 30th annual Markiewicz race Who knew back in 1983 that a cross country race launched at Bear Mountain for former high school runners would endure for three decades? Probably not many, but the Bill Markiewicz Rockland Alumni Cross Country Run indeed celebrated its 30th renewal on Nov. 24. […]
Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef today reached out to state officials to alert them that Rockland County faces a shortage of petroleum, the result of the recent closure of the Port of New York, and ongoing power outages at gas suppliers, as a result of Hurricane Sandy. During the course of the day many […]