Dear County Legislators, I just learned you voted (with the exception of Legislator Frank Sparaco) on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 to sue the residents of the Town of Clarkstown for reverting Samuel Road in Nanuet to its former dead end status. I don’t know if I am more shocked or disappointed that prior to taking […]
Dear Editor, My opponent opted to exercise his right to challenge my petitions, first with the Board of Elections and then to file in Supreme Court. There were 70 specific objections filed against the 150 signatures collected for the Independence line and 13 for the Working Families. I needed 125 and 11 respectively to appear […]
New Plant in Haverstraw up for Debate GenOn, a Haverstraw energy plant that has been involved in ongoing negotiations with the Town of Haverstraw concerning taxes, recently proposed building a new natural-gas power plant at the Bowline Generating Station under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Energy Highway” initiative. GenOn, formerly known as Mirant, owns the Bowline facility, which […]
BY VINNY MURPHY With no police matters on the agenda, the focus of Clarkstown’s Town Board Workshop Tuesday, July 31 quickly turned to town beautification and quality of life. After a brief introduction by Town Planner Jose Simoes, Charles Maneri, community Character and Design Committee chairman, presented three projects focused on making Clarkstown “an attractive place to […]
Two convicted sex offenders moved to Clarkstown, Cassidy Armistead and Christopher Popolizio. Armstead, 37, now lives at 31 Cottage Place in Nanuet. He is a level-two offender with moderate risk to reoffend. He was convicted January 2007 for sexual abuse of a 21-year-old woman. Popolizio, 21, now lives at 6 Sunnybank Drive in Nanuet. He […]
On July 27 at 7:45 p.m., young Kengsley Angrand of the middle-class Queens neighborhood Cambria Heights made a fateful decision. Angrand approached the clerk at Best Buy located at the Palisades Mall in West Nyack and presented a Visa gift card to pay for two Apple iPads valued at $1,119.89. Angrand left the store with […]