Congers News

There's more strategy to catching a water balloon dropped from a 52-foot platform than you may think.

CONGERS: After a rainout yesterday, the Congers Fire Department Carnival will start at 2 p.m. today and tomorrow, two hours earlier than originally planned.

A West Nyack woman is the latest in a string of contractors to be arrested as part of a countywide crackdown.

CONGERS: Air Force Airman Wayne E. Vines graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.

NEW CITY - The colorful rocks that adorn the garden outside United Hospice of Rockland look like carefully crafted art projects.

CONGERS: A motorcyclist was killed on Route 9W about 1 a.m. yesterday, Clarkstown police said.

Clarkstown police today released the name of a motorcyclist killed in an accident Saturday.

CONGERS - A motorcyclist was killed on Route 9W about 1 a.m. today, Clarkstown police said.

Clarkstown wants to spruce up New City's downtown to make it pedestrian and shopping friendly, part of the town's ongoing effort to revitalize its various constituent parts.

CONGERS - Eighteen students graduated from Rockland Country Day School this afternoon in an emotional commencement ceremony.

CLARKSTOWN: The Clarkstown Parks and Recreation Board will sponsor free concerts featuring live bands through July at Germonds Park, 185 Germonds Road, West Nyack; Congers Station Park, 1 Burnside Ave., off of Lake Road; and at the West Nyack Hamlet Green, 721 West Nyack Road, West Nyack.

Tappan Zee Bridge repairs Today: Right lane Westchester-bound closed milepost 16.1 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. DWI charge: Jesus Santos, 23, of Garnerville was charged yesterday with driving while intoxicated and operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent, both misdemeanors.

NEW CITY A Congers woman, who cared for a disabled man, has been arrested and charged with stealing thousands of dollars from him.

CONGERS - It's been more than a year since many Rockland County police officers have seen Cody McDowell, a three-year veteran of the Orangetown force who recently returned from a second tour in Iraq.

A fire in an abandoned house off North Middletown Road is under investigation tonight.

CONGERS: ARC of Rockland in Congers hosted two college interns this semester. - Stanley Morbeth of Spring Valley, a second-year student at Rockland Community College, earned three college credits as a computer-support intern.

SUFFERN - The village has received one proposal from a contractor to build in the Orange Avenue urban renewal zone.

Two more home-renovation contractors have been arrested on felony grand larceny counts of ripping off homeowners, authorities said yesterday.

The Zerbini Family Circus stops in Congers on Thursday night, for those of you who like that up-close family entertainment.

It seems these days it is more the exception than the rule. In my case one recent day, the exception was triumphant! Mine was not any life-threatening problem, but one of those inconveniences that probably more than a few experience daily.