Bardonia News

Barry Fixler grew up on war stories about the Marines, told to him by his father, a World War II veteran and a survivor of the bombing at Pearl Harbor.

You can add bottled water to your bin of redeemable containers now that a new state law has gone into effect requiring a nickel deposit at the checkout counter.

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.

After living in their Bardonia home for more than 16 years, the Rodriguez family was looking for a change.

BARDONIA: Students from the class of 2009 at Albertus Magnus High School were recognized by the College Board for achieving excellence on their AP examinations in May.

BARDONIA - Children peered at the yellowing paper filled with cursive penmanship that described the day 50 years ago when students at Bardonia Elementary School filled a time capsule with mementos for future generations.

Some residents across the region watched President Barack Obama's nationally televised speech to Congress feeling re-energized by what they heard, while others found little to abate the misgivings they have about the sweeping health-care reforms being proposed.

Prudently, Rockland takes a page out of Westchester's play book Rockland County legislators, looking to thin the deer herd, plan to form a task force to study the effectiveness and practicality of allowing bow hunting in county parkland.

RAMAPO - A West Nyack tattoo parlor became the first Rockland establishment fined by the county Board of Health for violating a new law governing body art.

BARDONIA - A 21-year-old Suffern man died around 1:45 a.m. yesterday after a car crash on the New York State Thruway.

The little bank that couldn't, finally has. Greater Hudson Bank on Friday reported a second-quarter profit of $126,946, or 1 cent per share.

BARDONIA: Katherine Ann Emeigh graduated May 9 summa cum laude from The College of St.

Police want to know who spray painted racist and anti-Jewish graffiti at a suburban New York high school.

BARDONIA - Clarkstown police are looking for the people who spray painted racist and anti-Jewish graffiti outside the Albertus Magnus High School press box and left other unidentified markings inside the building.

STONY POINT: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland has named four new board members.

CLARKSTOWN: Arnold J. Fucci of Bardonia, the director and supervisor of special education for the Clarkstown Central School District, was honored by the Clarkstown Council of PTAs at its Founders Day Celebration.

NANUET - Scores of area residents took to the streets yesterday to protest the federal government's pursuit of stimulus payments, corporate bailouts and new health and environmental policies they said were ruining the country.

We would like to thank our donors, many of whom came out to honor Sonia Stern and Bonnie Wind at JCC Rockland's Annual Wall of Giving Dinner held on June 17.

WHITE PLAINS - A federal judge today sentenced a 75-year-old former Rockland tax preparer to 15 months in prison for filing fraudulent returns.

Here's a recap of the June 8 Haverstraw Town Board meeting. Supervisor Howard Phillips and Town Board members Isidro 'Papo' Cancel, Vincent J. Gamboli, John Gould and Hector Soto were present.