Chestnut Ridge News

Chestnut Ridge, NY- The Culinary Institute of America recently partnered with Millennium Visual Systems to change a large portion of their lighting fixtures to energy-efficient, LED technology in the Hyde Park, NY campus.

GREEN MEADOW WALDORF SCHOOL: Sharon Maxwell, the author of 'The Talk: What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex,' will speak on how to raise sexually healthy and responsible kids at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Green Meadow Waldorf School, 307 Hungry Hollow Road in Chestnut Ridge.

PAULA WAGNER is a producer you might recognize because she did the "Mission: Impossible" movies and other Tom Cruise hits such as "The Last Samurai" and "Vanilla Sky." Now she is announcing a new original musical with hip-hop legend Run-DMC. Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels are meeting with Paula this week in New York to observe ...

CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY October 16, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Carlstadt Public Schools have installed a high tech, LED programmable display in front of their newly built campus where students, parents and community residents can keep informed of the latest school news.

The Department of Energy is proposing that tons of very low-level radioactive soil from a closed plutonium extraction plant in New York be trucked to Tennessee.

The Township of Cedar Grove has invested in a real-time electronic message center to provide the community with up-to-the-minute information about the happenings in the Town.

Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef said revenue is needed to fund the county's E-911 system and that likely means another attempt at a cell phone surcharge.

A.M. Best Co. has assigned a debt rating of "a-" to the new issuance of $300 million 7.35 percent 10-year senior unsecured notes of W. R. Berkley Corporation , and has assigned them a stable outlook.

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.

CHESTNUT RIDGE -[0x0f]State police tried cracking down on car racing Sunday night by issuing more than 60 tickets drivers at a known racing spot near the Garden State Parkway.

A Stony Point man became the third person arrested this week after police used the Rockland County helicopter to search for marijuana plants being grown outdoors.

Two men are facing felony drug charges after police found a total of 35 marijuana plants in two homes during searches yesterday, investigators said this morning.

SPRING VALLEY - Six people are running in the Democratic mayoral primary election in the village, but only five of them - the ones who are Haitian-American - were invited to a candidates' debate held exclusively in Creole.

Two employees at Da Vinci's Restaurant were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire tore through their kitchen this afternoon.

CHESTNUT RIDGE - The act of harvesting was no small potatoes at the Fellowship Community's Duryea Farm yesterday.

CHESTNUT RIDGE - The act of harvesting was no small potatoes at the Fellowship Community's Duryea Farm yesterday.

CHESTNUT RIDGE - The act of harvesting was no small potatoes at the Fellowship Community's Duryea Farm yesterday.

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CHESTNUT RIDGE - The act of harvesting was no small potatoes at the Fellowship Community's Duryea Farm yesterday.

CHESTNUT RIDGE - The act of harvesting was no small potatoes at the Fellowship Community's Duryea Farm today.