Palisades News

A year-long undercover investigation into the sale of prescription drugs to teenagers outside a local elementary school and in the mall has resulted in the arrest of 23 people, authorities announced this morning.

Authorities are searching the area near the Palisades Mall for a man wanted for questioning in connection with the death of a popular Rockland County gym teacher, PIX News has learned.

ORANGETOWN - In an early touch of winter, a brisk west wind swirled orange and yellow leaves around the front lawn of Palisades Community Center.

Re the series of Tappan Zee Bridge/Interstate 287 Project open houses in Westchester and Rockland counties last week: The only thing missing from these traveling Tappan Zee mega-bridge road shows is a carnival barker standing outside.

Black Friday -the day after Thanksgiving- is the beginning of the holiday shopping season.

A judge Tuesday night revoked probation for Michael Mele, after the 24-year-old pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his probation for sex crimes.

Location: Orangetown is adjacent to the Tappan Zee Bridge and 15 miles northwest of Manhattan.

Michael Mele showed up Tuesday in New York state's searchable Internet database.

A series of public meetings and workshops is planned for the coming month as the state begins to refine proposals for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge and bringing mass transit to the 30-mile corridor from Suffern to Port Chester.

Mullen: "The governor is committed ..." PALISADES On the same day as the national unemployment rate topped ten percent, New York's new economic development boss talked optimistically to Rockland County business people.

PALISADES - Raja R. Amar started out with a single cellular phone and accessories retail store in Westchester.

When you teach teenagers Shakespeare, you'd better find an angle. Diana Green's been doing just that for years at Children's Shakespeare Theater in the back room of Palisades Presbyterian Church in the tiny Rockland County hamlet.

What a welcome for the USS New York. The war ship, built with steel from the World Trade Center, arrived in New York City on Monday.

When Steven and Karen Lampert left New City eight months ago, their house on South Mountain Road was in foreclosure and they told friends they were broke.

PALISADES - A New Jersey woman seriously injured in a bicycle accident on Route 9W has been transferred to a Manhattan hospital, Orangetown police said today.

Saturday: Work will begin at 8 p.m. resulting in the closure of one right northbound lane, with an additional right lane at 10 p.m. and two additional right northbound lanes at midnight, until 7 a.m. from milepost 13.8 to the west abutment on the Tappan Zee Bridge.

NYACK: The large meeting room at Nyack Village Hall has been renamed the Hesse-O'Connell Room in honor of former trustees Isobel Hesse and Raymond T. O'Connell. Hesse, a 9-year member of the village board, was one of Nyack's earliest and most passionate civil rights crusaders, and helped integrate Nyack's YMCA and the village's school district.

WEST NYACK - The stretch of Route 59 near the Palisades Center mall will become one giant construction zone next year.

Wednesday: Right Westchester-bound lane closed for maintenance, milepost 15.0 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday: Right lane Rockland-bound closed for maintenance, milepost 13.1 to 16.2, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday: No maintenance scheduled.

Craig Wolf Poughkeepsie Journal Pyramid Management Group has outsourced its security detail to the Chicago-based firm IPC International.