Montebello News

A friend who has worked at the Metropolitan Museum for years shot me an e-mail message on Thursday, after Tom Hoving died.

Thomas Hoving, whose charismatic but controversial leadership of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography, "Making the Mummies Dance," died Thursday.

Back in the mid-1980s, when Craig Long was fresh out of college and new to his post as Ramapo town historian, he raised his hand to speak at his first meeting of the Historical Society of Rockland board.

STONY POINT: The Town Board will hold a public hearing to consider its proposed budget for 2010 during a workshop meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Rho building in Letchworth Village.

MONTEBELLO - Residents can comment Nov. 4 on a proposed village budget that doesn't raise taxes for 2010.

The Rockland Immigration Coalition has serious concerns about an incident police have classified as a hate crime committed in Suffern, as reported in the Sept.

For the past several years, some Ramapo officials have been lobbying for a new Thruway exit in their town when the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge is built.

MONTEBELLO - Under a baby-blue sky, Liz Langley and her white West Highland terriers walked across the new wood footbridge at Kakiat County Park.

MONTEBELLO - You could say it was something to bark about. Kakiat County Park, a second home to many dogs and their owners, reopened today after being shut July 15 to allow renovations.

MONTEBELLO - Celebrating half a century or more as a Rockland firefighter, 66 men were honored with certificates tonight for their ongoing dedication.

An 18-year-old Montebello man has been charged with two bias attacks since April.

AIRMONT- An 18-year-old Montebello man wearing a shirt with racist insignias has been charged with a second hate crime since April involving an attack on a Hispanic male, authorities said today.

Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence will face two primary challengers now that a judge has ruled that a Republican candidate can be reinstated to the ballot.

Dozens of Rockland firefighters will be honored for their 50 or more years of volunteer service in the county at a convention Friday.

Provident New York Bancorp , the parent company of Provident Bank, today announced that George Strayton, President and Chief Executive Officer and Paul A. Maisch, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference on Friday, September 11, 2009, at the New York Palace Hotel ...

Fonvil will discuss issues of concern to village residents and take questions from the audience.

CLARKSTOWN: Members of the Clarkstown South High School class of 1989 will hold a 20-year reunion from 7 p.m. to midnight Nov.

Juror No. 2 clutched his heart at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Joel J. Seidemann, an assistant district attorney, had just said something that the jurors probably had no idea was coming: "The people rest." The statement, it turned out, was premature.

TALLMAN - When the Tallman Volunteer Fire Department was first organized in 1909, it was merely a bucket brigade.

RAMAPO - Three people facing felony drug and weapon charges are the latest out-of-town magazine peddlers who have been arrested in Rockland.