The Rockland GOP has confirmed candidate Walter Wettje is appealing Judge Victor Alfieri’s ruling that discarded six absentee ballots in the Orangetown supervisor’s election. The GOP is filing its appeal in the NYS Court of Appeals Friday and the court anticipates it will decide whether to hear the case next week. Currently the incumbent Andy […]
Emergency Services provide update on Clausland Mountain Fire investigation BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – Weeks after a massive brush fire ravaged the woodlands of Clausland Mountain in Orangeburg, clear answers have emerged as to its origin and cause. Rockland County Fire and Emergency Services Director Gordon Wren and Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco were […]
Incident took place in July BY BILL DEMAREST NEW CITY – A Westchester County man has been charged with unlawful surveillance for secretly recording an “intimate encounter” with a female, according to Clarkstown police. Andrew Maniglia, 56, is charged with one count of second-degree unlawful surveillance, felony. He was arraigned in Clarkstown Town Court […]
FROM RPD At about 1:50 a.m. on December 5, 2013, the Ramapo Police Department responded to the area of Conklin Road and Route 45 for the report of an overturned vehicle. Responding officers found the vehicle off the roadway lying on the passenger side. The officers located one occupant of the vehicle who was unresponsive. […]
Approximately 12:34 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Ramapo Police responded to a reported bomb threat at the shopping center located at 274 Old Nyack Turnpike, Chestnut Ridge. According to testimony of employees and a shift manager, they reported receiving a phone call from an unknown person demanding an unknown monetary amount in gift cards and then threatened […]
Krystyna Izbinska, 64, from Nanuet was struck and killed shortly before 6 p.m. on December 4, 2013 while she was walking on New Clarkstown Rd. near the intersection with Meadow Lane in Nanuet. The vehicle, a 2000 Mercedes Benz, driven by Jayne Blechman, 55, from New City, was traveling south on New Clarkstown Rd. when […]