Hillburn News

As the project to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge unfolds, it's getting harder and harder for people to say they didn't have an opportunity to express their concerns in hopes of shaping the plan.

A higher concrete barrier, a lower recommended speed limit and a lighted sign warning truck drivers they risk rollovers are among the key changes coming next year to the Exit 15 ramp off the northbound Thruway in Ramapo.

I wish to thank the members of St. James Mar Thoma Church in Hillburn for their generous spirits.

The women above were incorrectly identified Saturday on Page 1B. From left are nurse Miriam Roker Horsford, Greenburgh; Alison Buchalter, Purchase; Christina Horsford, Greenburgh; and Nancy Lyon.

The Villge of Irvington Treasurer's Office in conjunction with the Senior Program is holding a Property Tax Exemption Seminar on Monday, November 30, 2009 at the Irvington Senior Center - 29 Bridge Street - 1:00 PM.

There will be only ONE garbage pickup for all areas The week of November 23, 2009 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday observance.

A Rockland judge today sentenced a county businessman to state prison and ordered him to pay $226,000 for stealing ownership of a house he had co-owned with his live-in girlfriend.

Beginning next month the Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 Corridor Project will be holding a series of community working meeting along the thirty-mile corridor, from Hillburn to Port Chester.

Re 'TZ/I-287 Project portends big changes across Rockland,' a Sept. 3 Community View by urban planner Richard May, who questioned aspects of the project plans: May stated that the extensive studies for the project 'are now complete.' To the contrary, the study phase is far from complete.

Richard DeGroat-Thomas has always been proud to be a member of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation.

The plan to build a hospice home is one of the projects that have been awarded federal stimulus funding.

A three-car accident closed two left southbound lanes on the New York State Thruway at Exit 15A-Sloatsburg-Suffern at 7:40 a.m. today Traffic is backed up several miles.

SLOATSBURG - Mindy Martinez misses what she calls the seclusion of her backyard.

Tappan Zee Bridge repairs Today: Right lane Westchester-bound closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 15.0 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Work will proceed weather permitting, and schedule updates will be announced as needed.

A 16-month-old rescue dog who slipped away while accompanying his owner on a hike in Harriman State Park has been missing for three days.

Here's a recap of the July 14 Stony Point Town Board meeting. Supervisor Phil Marino and Town Board members Stephen Cole-Hatchard, Geoffrey Finn, Louis Vicari and James White were present.

Tappan Zee Bridge repairs Today: Right lane Rockland-bound closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 13.1 to 15.0, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tomorrow: Right lane Rockland-bound closed for maintenance beginning at milepost 13.1 to 15.0, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Bridge deck replacement Today: Work will begin at 9 p.m. resulting in the ...

NEW CITY - A Missouri woman who was arrested in Ramapo on Sunday on charges of peddling magazines door-to-door without a permit was arrested in Clarkstown yesterday on the same charges, police said this morning.

The driver of a northbound tractor-trailer garbage hauling truck is reported to have been killed when his vehicle ran off the Thruway and down an embankment.

They're sad, and angry, and a bit more afraid. After hearing that state park Police Officer Chad Walder was found not guilty of reckless manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Emil Mann, members of the Ramapough Mountain Indian community also said they weren't surprised.