State energy regulators on Thursday approved the construction of a $2 billion Canada-to-Queens electricity transmission line that could carry enough wattage to power up to 1 million New York City homes. It is not immediately clear what this means for local resistance to the project. Read the full article here: REGULATORS APPROVE CHPE
Explosions at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, left at least 160 injured and as many as 15 people dead, police said Thursday. The blast rocked the facility on Wednesday evening as firefighters were battling an onsite blaze. Waco police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton said early Thursday morning that the death toll is only an […]
Thinking the fire at a local fertilizer plant was relatively innocuous a Waco, Texas father pulled up a quarter mile away with his son to observe the event. He told his son he expected the buildings at the plant to collapse, but instead a massive explosion went off, which he caught on tape. You can […]
New venue: Manny Lopez Complex The Haverstraw Little League has been awarded, by Little League Baseball and Softball International-Williamsport, PA, the New York State Senior League Softball Championships (ages 14-16) for the next three years. HLL has hosted and sponsored the championships for the past four years, and based on the success of the tournament […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – After an often emotional public hearing on the future of the financially-troubled Summit Park Nursing Home, the Rockland County Legislature voted to establish a local development corporation (LDC) for the facility. The public hearing was packed with attendees representing not only facility residents and their families but also public […]
The Historical Society of Rockland County (HSRC) hosted a High School History Conference on April 9,2013. This day-long gathering was held at the Comfort Inn in Nanuet and brought together high school history honor students, their advisors and the Social Studies Chairpersons from all of the Rockland County High Schools. Craig Long (County Historian), County […]