On Monday night, Ramapo town hall was filled to capacity for a meeting that never started. As nearly 200 residents crowded into the building to comment on a series of proposed new laws in the village of Airmont, the village board of trustees abruptly announced that the meeting would be rescheduled due to “technical difficulties”. […]
Denise Kerr, the former director of the Evergreen Assisted Living Facility in Spring Valley, is now the last of the six suspects to be arrested and arraigned following an investigation into the cause of the fire that destroyed the facility and claimed the lives of volunteer firefighter Jared Lloyd and resident Oliver Hueston last […]
The patron saint of workers is going to require a good mason job. On Thursday, a statue standing outside the Church of St. Joseph in Spring Valley, which depicted the eponymous saint, was toppled by a vandal in an incident that County Executive Ed Day personally considers a hate crime. It is alleged a […]
What would have been a discussion on how the Clarkstown Central school district planned to resume classes this fall was drowned by the shouting of nearly 170 residents, many who refused to wear masks inside the Clarkstown South High School auditorium. The district board decided not to hold its regularly scheduled meeting last Thursday. “It’s […]
Leonard Scarr, former owner and operator of Scarr Funeral Home in Suffern, has pled guilty to two charges of grand larceny and one count of forgery, following an investigation conducted by the Ramapo Police Department. The Rockland County District Attorney’s Office has now identified 90 victims of Scarr’s scams, who have suffered a combined […]
The intersection of Washburns Lane and Central Highway in Stony Point has long been a trouble spot for commuters and residents traveling through the town. Fortunately, thanks to repeated warnings from the community, the county government is taking the steps to reorganize the cross-way into a safer and streamlined intersection. “We’ve had four accidents […]