Haverstraw News

The town of Haverstraw put on a really great Halloween festival in Bowline Park on Oct.

With handpainted wallpaper, crystal chandeliers, masterpiece paintings and intricately carved period furnishings, the homes you will see at the Historical Society of Rockland County's annual holiday show are impressive.

WEST HAVERSTRAW - Two teens were in jail Monday and two others were being sought following a robbery Sunday, police said.

Fire calls were reported between 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday by 44 Control: 1:11 a.m., Monsey, trash bin/garbage can fire.

A 58-year-old Monsey man has been accused of stealing $156,000 from welfare programs by the county as part of its continuing investigation into fraud.

We cannot even to begin to thank everyone who offered their love, support and memories of Jimmy, our son, brother, uncle and friend, following his tragic and senseless death by a hit-and-run driver on May 31.

The industrial buildings along the Minisceongo Creek, just off Railroad Avenue in Garnerville, were there long before all of us.

Here are unofficial results of other election races around Rockland on Tuesday. Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St.

Frank Moricco and two other men, dressed in the red jackets and berets of the Guardian Angels, have been walking the village's downtown, looking to learn if the anti-crime group would be welcomed.

Staff Sgt. Luis Agostini of Haverstraw, a combat correspondent for the Marines, recently was deployed to Afghanistan and is writing about his experiences for The Journal News and LoHud.com. He was deployed in August 2004 to Al Anbar province in Iraq, where he covered the battle of Fallujah.

Karl Schenkel says driving Main Street in West Haverstraw has been "absolutely horrendous" for the past three weeks.

MYFOX NATIONAL -- Police in Haverstraw, N.Y., say an armed man walked into a Taco Bell restaurant on Oct.

Living in Haverstraw village can be frustrating. Crimes in many different forms are commonplace.

The Rockland County Legislature's Budget and Finance Committee meeting came and went last week without an affordable-housing group under the panel's investigation being added to the agenda.

Three store clerks have been charged with selling alcohol to minors in Haverstraw following a sting operation.

A man armed with a knife stole more than $1,000 from a Route 202 gas station attendant Friday morning, Haverstraw police said.

After four days of off-and-on searching of Harriman State Park, authorities have found no evidence of a downed plane and have all but called off the pursuit.

MOUNT IVY - Haverstraw police were investigating an early morning robbery at a service station on Route 202 at Route 45.

STONY POINT - Standing at Route 9W and Main Street, Town Supervisor Phil Marino invited a black SUV to drive to the north end of the Route 9W bridge shortly after 12:30 p.m. Monday.

Helicopters will be searching a 6-square-mile area over Horse Chock Mountain in the Harriman State Park portion of Haverstraw tonight following reports that a plane went down.