Green Dot Money Scam Thwarted

Employees at CVS helped break up a “Green Dot” money scam last Friday, Clarkstown Police (CPD) reports. CPD says that on August 29 a 57-year-old female from Valley Cottage almost got scammed for more than $2,500 in cash, after the victim received a phone message from someone who identified themselves as an agent with the […]

Air Quality Health Advisory Issued For Tuesday, September 2

PRESS RELEASE FROM COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. Rockland County Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert is alerting residents that an Air Quality Health Advisory for the Metropolitan New York City region, including Rockland County, has been issued for today, Tuesday, September 2, 2014.  Air Quality Health Advisories are issued by the New York State […]

Heat spawns cooling centers

Late summer has brought the region its first serious heat wave of 2014. The Town of Ramapo announced today that the following Cooling Centers have been established in the town: Ramapo Town Hall, 237 Route 59, Suffern (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.) The Joseph T. St. Lawrence Center, 115 Torne   Valley Rd., Hillburn (7 a.m. […]

Tappan Zee Constructors purchase South Nyack home

BY JANIE ROSMAN Rockland County land records indicate Jacqueline Peralta and her husband Roberto Garcia officially sold their house at 317 S. Broadway — one of six home originally targeted for eminent domain — to Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC (TZC) on August 21, 2014, for $450,302. Earlier this year, TZC bought the home of next-door […]

BOIL WATER ORDER LIFTED FOR ORANGETOWN COMMUNITIES

United Water received official notification from the Rockland County Health Department that enables the boil water order to be lifted for customers at the following addresses: Orangeburg ·         Sickletown Rd. – # 61, 65, 66, 69, 75, 81, 83, 85, 89, 91 ·         Briarwood La. – # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 […]