Nyack News

It's been more than two years since community protests stopped an adult bookstore and video booths from opening on Route 59.

NYACK - A longtime administrator has been appointed interim principal at Valley Cottage Elementary School, taking over for retiring leader Brenda Grier.

NEW CITY - County legislators are expected to make changes before voting tomorrow on County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef's 2009 proposed county budget.

Desiree Williams didn't know her father, a 62-year-old homeless man found dead in a stairway days before Thanksgiving.

A 31-year-old man accused of firing a rifle from his back porch for no apparent reason yesterday morning faces felony charges, as well as a violation of environmental conservation law.

NYACK - Nearly every day during the past year, Fleming Taylor walked into the Starbucks on Main Street as the doors opened, sat in the same purple velvet chair, read and discussed what was in The Wall Street ...

Police say a school in the New York suburbs went into a lockdown when a man who lives nearby fired a rifle from his back porch.

The 31-year-old male resident of Christian Herald Road in the hamlet of Valley Cottage was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a residence. No injuries were reported.

Police say seven officers were sent to the man's neighborhood after reports of gunshots about 9 a.m. Wednesday.

A Nyack schools spokeswoman says that officials at nearby Liberty Elementary School also called police after gunshots were heard. She says the school was locked down about 15 minutes later, then reopened around 9:35 a.m.

PIERMONT - A 100-foot-long barge that has been used for a road project on the Tappan Zee Bridge broke loose yesterday and drifted into shallow water near the village pier.

Donald Ford is planning to take a cushy-looking sofa out of the window display at his furniture store and replace it with a more modestly priced one.

November 21, 2008 Updated 10:39 p.m. KINGSTON Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter Friday and held on for a 14-13 victory over Nyack in the New York State Class A high school ...

PEEKSKILL - Christopher Kennedy is sitting for a talk in the Peekskill High School auditorium, learning about the dangers of smoking.

WEST NYACK - John Geist has a stack of photographs depicting life in Rockland a century ago.

On Nov. 8, the Nyack Center honored Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, Alan Michalowski and state Sen.

GREENBURGH - A Rockland County man was more than two times the legal limit for driving while intoxicated when he crashed his car on the Sprain Brook Parkway, state police said today.

Chef Ramsay visits Fiesta Sunrise, a Mexican restaurant in West Nyack, N.Y., and meets a stubborn owner who is ruining the business.

Anticipating a rough fiscal year, the village board met yesterday, months before it typically starts budget deliberations, to find ways to protect local services and projects in the midst of a national economic ...

The cost of riding the bus in Rockland could soon go up. The county's Department of Transportation is proposing to raise fares on five bus services: Transport of Rockland, which travels within the county; the ...

Though faced with the same grim budgetary realities as many other U.S. counties, Rockland is positioned to ride out the current financial crisis in part due to its vibrant business community, County Executive ...

Village officials have been making modifications to ease downtown parking concerns - a long-standing gripe among residents and visitors.

CLARKSTOWN - Tina Traster and her family woke up yesterday morning to vandalism.