New Hempstead News

NEW HEMPSTEAD - Ramapo police have arrested a man they suspect tried to set his house on fire earlier in the day.

In response to Mark Shustak's letter on Monday, 'Roads repaired just in time for elections,' the confusion over distinguishing between state, county and town roads is understood.

Jeff Weinstein spent his Sunday afternoon marching on Route 45 to express his opposition to a kosher chicken processing plant in New Square.

Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence has needed some real competition.

The Valley Cottage mother brutally attacked Sept. 18 in a New Jersey hotel parking lot remains hospitalized as detectives continue to investigate.

A public hearing on large poultry slaughterhouse set for Nov. 10 was canceled today with no new date announced.

During the Tuesday night meeting of our county Legislature, many Rockland citizens used the open comment period to express their deep concerns regarding the proposed building of a chicken processing plant on property within the Village of New Square.

NEW HEMPSTEAD - More than 100 people from all over Rockland attended a rally today to show their opposition to plans by the village of New Square to build a chicken slaughterhouse on a vacant piece of land on Route 45.

NEW HEMPSTEAD - A widening group of people furious about a plan to build a chicken slaughterhouse using tax dollars across the street from a residential neighborhood plan to hold a rally Saturday to express their opposition.

A group of residents angry at the prospect of a large slaughterhouse near their neighborhood met Monday night to discuss ways to stall the facility, which they say was planned without their input and which was promised $1.6 million in state funding.

Share + Sep 30, 2009 7:18 pm US/Eastern Reporting Tony Aiello 1 of 1 The site of a new kosher chicken processing plant is drawing jeers from New Hempstead residents, while New Square residents are offering cheers.

Opposition to a proposed chicken slaughterhouse is growing ahead of a Nov. 10 public hearing set by New Square for the controversial facility not far from the New Hempstead border.

Opposition to a proposed chicken slaughterhouse is growing ahead of a Nov. 10 public hearing set by New Square for the controversial facility not far from the New Hempstead border.

NEW HEMPSTEAD - A thief pedaled off with an expensive bicycle after breaking into a garage on Union Road, Ramapo police said today.

Over the years, the Village of New Square's neighbors in New Hempstead have watched New Square grow by leaps and bounds.

The state will pay half the cost of constructing a controversial $3 million kosher poultry slaughterhouse in New Square that has invited the ire of neighbors and the disapproval of Rockland County.

NEW CITY A New Hempstead woman was arrested for allegedly stealing over $10,000 from the Rockland County Builders and Remodelers Association while she was an executive officer of the association.

A New Hempstead woman is accused of embezzling more than $10,000 from her Nanuet-based employer over nearly two years, using the money to pay for everything from airplane tickets to private school tuition.

Mikolai Friend struggled as he tried to cut an apple piece. As the 13-year-old from Staten Island worked, a staffer with VISIONS Center on Blindness walked him through every step, teaching him how to use the handle to know which was the sharp side of the knife and how to hold the fruit first to know its shape before cutting it.

County reviewers have disapproved a proposal to build a large poultry slaughterhouse on Route 45 near several homes in a neighboring community.