West Nyack News

A Haverstraw-based affordable housing group must provide documentation and answers to 193 questions asked by the lawyer for the Rockland Legislature panel chairman who is withholding $113,000 in county money.

A sex offender suspected in the fatal disappearance of a young New York City woman has been sentenced to one to three years in state prison for not reporting his living address to police.

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.

NANUET - Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef beat back a challenge by Democrat Thom Kleiner on Tuesday and won election to a fifth four-year term.

Most Clarkstown incumbents running for re-election retained their seats tonight, according to unofficial results from the Rockland County Board of Elections.

WEST NYACK -[0x0f]A two-month long celebration of Jewish culture begins Tuesday with the author of a novel about intrigue during the civil war discussing the work at the JCC of Rockland.

Children and adults will get a Halloween treat when they attend "All For Naut" with storyteller Colette Guibert, as she portrays Naut Kaniff, the legendary witch of West Nyack at The Historical Society of Rockland County.

WEST NYACK: Keller Williams Hudson Valley Realty will sponsor a Ladies Night Shopping Boutique from 5 to 9 p.m. Nov.

NEW CITY - Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef's proposed 2010 county budget slashes funding to contract agencies, seeks pharmacy co-payments from county workers and estimates sales-tax revenues to be only slightly less than 2009 estimates.

PEARL RIVER - Pearl River 13-year-old Annie Loftus' favorite songs to sing are a medley of Abba's tunes.

John McCarthy is to start his duties as assistant superintendent of the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services on Nov.

NEW CITY: Air Force Airman 1st Class Ivana Jimenez graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.

Voters head to the polls in just 18 days to choose who will be Rockland County executive in the Nov.

A Rockland County legislator has blocked more than $100,000 in funding to a Haverstraw-based affordable housing organization for months, pending another review of the group's spending and real estate development programs.

As a little girl, Nirali Patel would watch her mother and grandmother make special sweets and savory delicacies for Diwali, and help in cleaning and preparing the home for the Hindu New Year.

NEW CITY - A jury Thursday convicted a Haverstraw man of attempted murder in the 2005 multiple stabbing of a 78-year-old man who was putting groceries in his car.

Here's a recap of the Sept. 22 Town Board meeting. Supervisor Alex Gromack and board members Shirley Lasker, Frank Borelli and George Hoehmann were present.

WEST NYACK - Clarkstown police are investigating the theft of a display case containing possibly as much as $15,000 in jewelry, Sgt.

I've never hit a deer with my car, but I've come pretty close. About a year ago, after working a late-night shift, I was driving home on Strawtown Road in West Nyack when a deer darted across the two-lane road, a few yards in front of me.

WEST NYACK - The stretch of Route 59 near the Palisades Center mall will become one giant construction zone next year.