Piermont News

Somewhere inside 'I Love You, Beth Cooper,' there lies a high-school comedy in the same vein as the great John Hughes movies of the 1980s.

A home improvement contractor from Piermont has pleaded guilty to working in Rockland without a license.

As the parent of a fifth-grader in South Orangetown, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell became one of my heroes from the day he started work.

The Piermont farmers market is now open every Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will be held rain or shine until Nov.

A visit to The Outside In Piermont gets started, fittingly, while you're still outside.

Jazz great Alvin Queen will make a rare NY area appearance leading a group featuring trumpeter Terell Stafford and Italian pianist Dado Moroni , who is also making a rare appearance in this area.

Local health officials are launching a grass-roots, multilingual effort to warn residents about contamination in Hudson River fish.

A Rockland grand jury yesterday brought back multiple felony counts against a retired New York City police officer from Tappan whose anger about a swine flu letter, authorities say, led him to run through the South Orangetown Middle School and hold the school superintendent hostage at gunpoint.

NEW CITY - A former New York City police officer accused of holding a schools superintendent at gunpoint last week because he was angry about a swine flu letter pleaded not guilty this morning to a list of felony charges against him.

NYACK - Salvage workers yesterday raised a rare 50-year-old wood sailboat that sank mysteriously to the muddy bottom of the Hudson River overnight last week.

Orangetown, the southernmost town in Rockland, is made up of the river villages Nyack, South Nyack, Piermont and Grand View, as well as a cluster of hamlets.

Today: Right lane Westchester-bound closed beginning at milepost 16.1 to 13.1, between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Today: Work will begin at 9 p.m., resulting in the closure of the right Rockland-bound lane, to three northbound lanes at 9:30 p.m., to four northbound at midnight until 8 a.m. from Interchange 8 to the east abutment on the Tappan Zee ...

A longtime kitchen-and-home accessory shop in Piermont has undergone a makeover.

On paper, Peter Cocker seemed to have little in common with the man police say aimed a gun at the South Orangetown schools superintendent yesterday, threatening to blast him in the heart.

NYACK - Ann Owens found herself yesterday thinking back in time - 400 years, to be exact.

The Palisades panther first appeared on the morning of March 6th, in Snedens Landing, a hamlet on the Hudson, just over the New Jersey line.

PIERMONT - In his more than six decades as a firefighter, Philip DeLorenzo battled countless blazes, plunged into the Hudson River as one of Rockland County's original divers, and rushed people to the hospital as a member of the village ambulance corps.

Tomorrow to Thursday: Installation of modular joints in main span and west deck truss will continue in the center lanes.

Pillars of smoke rose over four locations in Rockland yesterday to symbolize the meaning of Memorial Day.

Members of Chapter 333 of the Vietnam Veterans of America continue a 22-year-old tradition today with ceremonies honoring those who've died in service to the nation.