Cowardly attacker takes aim at concert-goers from 32nd-story Mandalay Bay hotel room Fifty nine people were killed and more than 500 were injured after a gunman opened fire on a large country music concert crowd in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooter, whom police identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, started shooting at the […]
STORY AND PHOTO BY KATHY KAHN The Town of Clarkstown chambers were packed on Tuesday evening, October 3, for the swearing-in of Raymond McCullagh, a 29-year veteran of Clarksotwn Police Department, who praised fellow officers, saying, “Their’s is the toughest job there is.” McCullagh, sworn in by Judge Craig Johns and McCullagh’s wife, Terry, replaces ousted Chief […]
Seven elite European trotters representing five countries landed safely Wednesday, October 4 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, ready to compete in the $1-million Yonkers International Trot taking place Saturday, October 14 at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway. World class trotters from Denmark (2), Finland (1), Italy (2), France (1) and Sweden […]
Town of Ramapo to make hidden hamlet disappear, eviction notice sent to home-renters STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHY KAHN Residents of the small community of the “Hamlet of Ramapo,” a dead-end street off Torne Valley Rd. in unincorporated Ramapo near the Village of Hillburn, have been told by the town to vacate the premises. The […]
Westchester Broadway Theatre is supporting charitable organizations in the community, now through November 22, 2017, with their Share the Warmth Clothing and Toiletries Drive. Clean out your closets and help us provide warm clothing and toiletries to those less fortunate. Men’s and women’s clothing in new or nearly-new condition (no rips, stains, etc.), and unopened […]
Lauren Shields of Stony Point isn’t a little girl anymore. When she was only 8-years-old Shields received a heart transplant and by the time she was 11, she was spearheading a movement to expand organ donations in New York by requiring driver’s license applicants in state to fill out the organ donor registry [yes or […]