Garnerville News

HAVERSTRAW - Police are investigating a hit-and-run that landed a 26-year-old Spring Valley man in the hospital early yesterday.

RAMAPO - The Riveras were present in full force: grandparents, parents, six aunts and eight siblings and cousins, the youngest barely 4 years old.

Rockland Country Day School students were selected to exhibit a piece of their artwork at the Garnerville Arts Center Gallery during a two-day exhibition in May.

A visit to The Outside In Piermont gets started, fittingly, while you're still outside.

Joanie Kearny still can't believe that Jimmy McNicholas is gone. "I still expect him to show up," said Kearny, a friend and co-worker of McNicholas.

NYACK - David Blau, a Nyack resident who has been with his partner for 28 years, said it's a matter of time before New York joins a group of six states that allow same-sex marriage.

The movements and gestures that fascinate Joe Fusaro will be draped from ceiling to floor in Gallery B at the Garnerville Arts Center starting today.

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.

NYACK - Ann Owens found herself yesterday thinking back in time - 400 years, to be exact.

The gals who run The Soap & Paper Factory have one simple rule: If they can't pronounce an ingredient, it doesn't go into their beauty products.

PEARL RIVER - Orangetown police said today that they hope a sandal will provide information leading them to the hit-and-run driver who killed a man on Sunday morning.

Taxpayers in the library district can get to vote on the proposed library budget for 2009-10 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Laura Otulak got the wake-up call of a lifetime when she came home to find her house burglarized last summer.

Tomorrow Montebello: Service. A fifth-grader will read the Gettysburg Address. 9:30 a.m. Village Hall, 1 Montebello Road.

Monday: No work scheduled. Tuesday: Right Rockland-bound lane closed for maintenance from milepost 13.1 to 16.1 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance from milepost 16.1 to 13.1 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance from milepost 16.1 to 13.1 from ...

North Rockland school district voters comfortably voted to support a $187.6 million budget yesterday and elected two newcomers to the school board.

Two men are in the county jail this morning after an employee of a local business was robbed and dragged into a car on a village street yesterday afternoon, police said.

It was a countywide food drive and students, faculty and staff at Rockland Community College collected two tons of food recently.

GARNERVILLE - The state came to Rockland yesterday to get the public's input regarding United Water New York's proposed Hudson River Treatment Plant.

The owners of a Garnerville apartment complex violated the fair housing rights of people with disabilities, federal prosecutors alleged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.