Tappan News

Daniyel Baron marched Sunday afternoon with fellow Marines of many generations in the sunny backyard of the Kearsing-Edwards American Legion Post off Pomona Road in Ramapo.

Here's a recap of the Oct. 26 Orangetown Town Board meeting. Supervisor Thom Kleiner and Town Board members Nancy Low-Hogan and Denis Troy were present.

ORANGEBURG - During the late 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of young families left the Bronx and other parts of New York City to make their way to what they hoped would be a better life in Rockland.

Robert Norden, owner of the '76 House in Tappan, was recently awarded a medal for historic preservation by the national chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

PLEASANTVILLE - Since 2003, the Section 1 diving title has stayed in Rockland County.

I am writing as a lifelong resident of Tappan. There are two questions on the ballot in November which I wholeheartedly support and asked for your consideration.

ORANGETOWN: Peter Cocker, a Tappan father and retired police officer, made a short appearance in court Tuesday on felony charges accusing him of entering a Blauvelt school armed with a gun and going after the superintendent.

CLARKSTOWN: The district had 11 students who were named National Merit Semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Competition.

FISHKILL - 'Henry Hudson' will be at Mount Gulian Historic Site as part of an afternoon of quadricentennial programs from noon to 4 p.m. Oct.

After nearly 30 years of no diplomatic relations, Iran and the United States are meeting Oct.

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.

A large crowd gathered Sunday at the Blauvelt firehouse around a big sheet cake displaying a picture of the Blauvelt Free Library, a few years younger.

Earlier in August, the Color Guard of the General Leonard E. Wood American Legion Post 162, Hillsdale, participated in the Tappan, N.Y. Welcome Home Parade for the 812th Military Police Company.

A host of officials involved with the $16 billion project to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge and add mass transit to Interstate 287 will discuss various funding possibilities at an upcoming meeting.

A local chapter of the nonprofit Nam Knights of America is gearing up for its annual ceremony highlighting the importance of keeping searches alive for those who never returned from combat.

HAVERSTRAW: Dancing Under the Stars and the International Food Walk will be held Friday in Haverstraw village's downtown.

Sylvia Schur, a food editor who through her pioneering consulting company developed products like Clamato and Cran-Apple juice and Metrecal, wrote recipes for the fictional home chefs Ann Page and Betty Crocker and helped conceive the menus for restaurants like the Four Seasons in Manhattan, died Wednesday in Chicago.

The deep soulful singing of Alexis Suter and the peppy charm of Red Molly will help Piermont care for its children through the Police Athletic League program.

If one were to drive through the Four Corners at Route 59 and Middletown Road in Nanuet on any Saturday between 1 and 3 p.m., one would see the Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice peace vigil that has been held every week for more than six years.

Bob Shields of Tappan, who earned Bronze Stars for valor, Purple Hearts and other decorations for his actions in World War II, never returned to Normandy after taking part in the D-Day invasion because, he says, 'All my men are on those crosses.' In fact, over the years, he's given away all his medals, saying that now, 'all I want to do is live in ...