Town of Newburgh Opening First Electronic Gaming Casino in State: First Video Lottery Terminal Location for New York will be Located in Orange County

Town of Newburgh Opening First Electronic Gaming Casino in State: First Video Lottery Terminal Location for New York will be Located in Orange County

Get ready to get your game on. On Monday evening, May 24, Town of Newburgh board members unanimously approved the first electronic video gaming casino in New York State to be located in the Newburgh Mall. It is the first—but certainly not the last—of VLT parlors to come to the Empire State. Situated at the […]

Yanks Season Turnaround Sparked By Unlikely Source

Yanks Season Turnaround Sparked By Unlikely Source

Rewind the calendar about six weeks ago. It was full-fledged panic mode in Yankees land. The Yankees started the season 5-10. They were 2-8 against the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays and actually played worse than that 5-10 record would indicate. Over that fifteen game stretch, I couldn’t really pinpoint one particular element […]

Lawler Proposes Alternate Funding For East Ramapo Private Schools

Lawler Proposes Alternate Funding For East Ramapo Private Schools

    Assemblyman Mike Lawler (R,C,I,SAM-Pearl River) has introduced a new bill to the state legislature in an effort to solve some long-standing issues in the East Ramapo Central School District. “For years, the East Ramapo Central School District has been a source of controversy, anger and division in our community. It’s been a long, […]

Airmont Planners Consider Massive Religious Cemetery

Airmont Planners Consider Massive Religious Cemetery

Back in 1991, 9,000 town residents created the Village of Airmont to preserve their semi-rural neighborhoods from overdevelopment, traffic and pollution and to ensure enough water to sustain them. It’s one of many village and hamlets dotting New York’s landscape, and Rockland residents have a front-row seat to see how easily they can be swallowed […]

POLL: New York Ditches Mask Mandate, Will Citizens Follow Suit?

POLL: New York Ditches Mask Mandate, Will Citizens Follow Suit?

New York State has reached a major milestone in the fight against Covid-19. On Wednesday, May 19, in accordance with new recommendations from the CDC, the state government lifted the “mask mandate”, which required residents to leave their faces covered in public settings. The decision came after the state was pressured by multiple County Executives, […]