Pandas: the World’s Silent Victim of Climate Change

Pandas: the World’s Silent Victim of Climate Change

Global climate change isn’t just affecting humans. The adorable and fuzzy giant panda is also suffering from increased worldwide temperatures in more ways than one. Recently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) down graded the panda from being endangered to now being vulnerable. Even though this is great news for pandas everywhere, these […]

Pianist Enchants Audience at the Valley Cottage Library

Pianist Enchants Audience at the Valley Cottage Library

BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Classical pianist Jun Luke Foster dazzled an audience at Valley Cottage Library on April 2 as part of the library’s Young Masters recital series. Before describing the details of Foster’s highly successful performance, I will first share with our readers his impressive background starting with his education at Yale University, where […]

Major Bataan Death March Memorial to be held Saturday at Camp Shanks

Major Bataan Death March Memorial to be held Saturday at Camp Shanks

  BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES One of the nation’s major memorials marking the 75th anniversary of the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March-one of the darkest hours of World War II-will be held here in Rockland County Saturday at a ceremony in Orangetown. The event, which is free and open to the public, is […]

Planners see Nanuet as possible “walkable” community

Planners see Nanuet as possible “walkable” community

BY KATHY KAHN  27 ½ acres surround the Nanuet train station, which residents of the Hamlet would like to see re-designed into a  “transit oriented development” (TOD) that would attract Boomers and Millennials to live, play and take the train to work each day. Town of Clarkstown held its second meeting on the proposed zoning […]