Tappan News

TAPPAN - A scholar, educator and activist, Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi has been in the front line of promoting civil rights and conducting sociological studies on racial relationships.

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.

RAMAPO: The New Square Community Improvement Council was awarded a $58,100 Early Head Start Expansion grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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

ORANGEBURG - The Orangetown Town Board will weigh the merits of stability and accountability as it reopens a debate on doubling term lengths for three elected positions.

ORANGEBURG - Daniel Lynn is not your typical valedictorian. The Columbia University-bound student was one of around 250 who graduated from Tappan Zee High School yesterday evening, and he confessed he might not have been the most well-behaved student in his class.

ORANGEBURG - While praise for Ken Mitchell has reached as far as the U.S. Senate, last night at Orangetown Town Hall the local community had its chance to recognize him and the Orangetown police for their heroic work.

The former New York City policeman who stormed into a suburban middle school with a gun had to sort through body parts after 9/11 and suffers from post-traumatic stress, his attorney said Tuesday.

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.

TAPPAN: The Tappan Reformed Church will hold a Giant Flea Market and Antique Sale, rain or shine, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 27 at 32 Old Tappan Road.

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.

Tue, Jun 16, 2009 The former New York City policeman who stormed into a suburban middle school with a gun had to sort through body parts after 9/11 and suffers from post-traumatic stress, his attorney said Tuesday.

New York is among the 10 states where H1N1 'swine flu' infection is now considered widespread.

Ex-cop in NY school fight charged with kidnapping Eds: APNewsNow. NEW CITY, N.Y. A former New York City policeman who is accused of confronting a suburban school official at gunpoint has been indicted on a kidnapping charge.

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.

The unassuming suburban New York school superintendent who tackled and disarmed a gunman in a middle school said Wednesday that the confrontation amounted to "an unfortunate distraction." South Orangetown Central School District Superintendent Ken Mitchell also said he was embarrassed by parents, police and politicians calling him a hero after his ...

Police in suburban New York say an armed man who was wrestled to the ground by a superintendent at a middle school is a former police officer and parent of a student.Police say a letter from the district about swine flu may have played into Tuesday's incident at the Blauvelt school.

This year's guest speaker will be the Rev. Donald Hoover of the Tappan Dutch Reformed Church.

Frank Fortuna, a Navy coxswain, remembers that the English Channel was very rough during the trip over and that many of the 100 British infantrymen on his landing craft got seasick.

ORANGEBURG - In recent memory, residents around Orangetown's river villages and several hamlets have had no nearby supermarket and have needed to travel to New Jersey or Clarkstown for their produce.