Rock Tavern News

Relentlessly growing ridership is prompting NJ Transit to buy more of its popular double-decker cars to boost capacity on trains that travel to Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.

A Walden man stole more than $8,000 from a company that deals in the safe transportation of cash, town police said.

State police arrested a Rock Tavern man on a felony rape charge, alleging he had sex with a seven-year-old girl in Mount Hope in the summer of 2000.

AIRMONT - Three people who were apparently living in a car parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot are awaiting arraignment this morning on stolen property and drug charges, Ramapo police said.

“Unfortunately, the majority of bodies found in water are assumed to have drowned since there is no other obvious cause of death.”

The suspected serial killings of 40 young men nationwide have brought together two detectives in Rock Tavern, drowning experts in Hurley and a distraught family in Kingston. via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

“We are upset about this because we live in this community. It is very important to protect the Great Swamp.”

PAWLING - The DEC will know early next week how much soil and wetland contamination occurred when more than 3,000 gallons of heating fuel was spilled in a botched delivery Thursday. via Poughkeepsie Journal

Even after years of protests and legal attacks, the clock has yet to officially start ticking on the massive power line proposed for our region. via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

“It was just a kid playing a prank, that's all”

Four Shirley men were arrested on charges that they sprayed bullets at the front of a Yaphank pub, Suffolk police said Saturday. via Newsday.com

“Now we have no limitations. Now we can use our own free will as we may”

During more than five years working at the Orange County Choppers shop, Vinnie DiMartino was following instructions. via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

The massive power line that could slice through our region has been forced to consider new routes along the New York State Thruway and the Marcy-South power line. via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

“Once I had committed to getting the playground built, I started networking and promoting the idea in the community and asking for help by creating a Web site, putting up fliers and just meeting everyone I could who was pushing a stroller”

BEACON - With the addition of a sandbox and a footbridge, a local children's park is putting finishing touches on its second phase of expansion Since the completion of its first phase in April 2006, the Wee ... via Poughkeepsie Journal

“And we are hoping we can have Christmas services in our church next year”

More than a year after fire destroyed the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, the church is on the doorstep of rebuilding. via Middletown Times Herald Record

The Empire State Carpenters Apprenticeship Committee, Local 19, will conduct recruitment from January 3 through December 30, 2008 for five linoleum, resilient tile and carpet layer apprentices, State Labor ... via Mid-Hudson News

A 27-year-old Rock Tavern man has been indicted by an Orange County grand jury for allegedly holding up a gas station in New Windsor. via Mid-Hudson News

The search is underway in Orange County for survivors of a small plane crash in Maybrook. via WCAX-TV Burlington

Rock Tavern One person is dead and two injured when a single-engine 2003 Cirrus plane crashed near Stewart Airport, outside of Newburgh, shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday. via Empire State News

Plane crash under investigation Rock Tavern State Police at Newburgh early today were investigating a a plane crash in which one person is reported dead and two others injured. via Mid-Hudson News