Nyack News

A Schenectady man lost his appeal this week to overturn his guilty plea in a 2006 marijuana arrest on the New York State Thruway in West Nyack.

YONKERS - City police are searching for one of two men who led police on a car chase, then bailed out of the moving vehicle, which crashed into a parked car on Riverdale Avenue.

A good deed never goes unpunished. At least that's the case of actor Stephen Baldwin, who gave a homeless man living in a tent housing in a cottage on his property along Old Mountain Road, police said today.

GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services has provided a $3 million senior secured credit facility to Codon Devices, a privately held biotechnology firm delivering products and platform solutions based on synthetic biology to the chemical industry.

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

We would like to thank our donors, many of whom came out to honor Sonia Stern and Bonnie Wind at JCC Rockland's Annual Wall of Giving Dinner held on June 17.

When she died in 1879, Cynthia Hesdra - a black ex-slave - was worth an estimated $2 million in today's dollars, making her one of the wealthiest people in Rockland at the time.

NYACK: The Nyack Teachers Association awarded three scholarships to Nyack High School students.

NYACK - When Rade Vilotijevic noticed his prized sculpture missing from an outdoor exhibit at a local arts center over the weekend, he hoped it had been moved.

NYACK - A 200-pound free form granite sculpture that is part of an outdoor exhibit has gone missing from Hopper House Art Center, a trustee from the center said tonight.

WEST NYACK - If you think quilting is an activity popular only among a certain set, think again.

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

NYACK - It was a crowd to rival any Friday night football game. Every seat in the sprawling stands at MacCalman Field was filled as loved ones watched the 214 graduates of Nyack High School accept their diplomas after four years of rigorous studies.

Some people in life catch a wave. Others are caught by an undertow. Terry Martin Hekker woke up one day to find that powerful forces both personal and societal had conspired to upend her life and drag her down.

Carol McIlmurray said she's been cursed at on the street, yelled at during a public meeting and been in a confrontation at Starbucks that ended with the police involved.

NYACK - During the first year her clothing boutique was open downtown, Paulette Ross brought in a local artist to display works there.

The stars of Jon & Kate Plus Eight , who have admitted to marital woes, spent the weekend of their 10th wedding anniversary apart.

CLARKSTOWN - Thousands of drivers will be forced to use hilly, windy, narrow roads and tricky intersections next month when the Mountainview Avenue bridge is shut down for repairs.

CLARKSTOWN - Polls opened at 7 a.m. today for residents of the Clarkstown Central School District to vote on a $163,797,244 school budget, a 1.75 percent increase over last year's and the lowest budget-to-budget hike in 15 years.

Guess a decade of being emasculated by a grating bitch - on national television, no less, for a good portion of it - will take its toll on any guy eventually.