Wesley Hills News

WESLEY HILLS - A home invasion yesterday led Ramapo police to saturate the upscale, quiet Lime Kiln Road neighborhood with car patrols, a helicopter and search teams.

WESLEY HILLS - Dogs were confined in filthy crates stored in a Spook Rock Road home that reeked of their feces and urine, an animal cruelty agent testified yesterday.

They are almost everywhere in the Lower Hudson Valley and beyond, wherever there are motor vehicles.

RAMAPO - The town is awaiting a shipment of 5,000 bottles of hand sanitizer that the supervisor plans to distribute to camp counselors, police, seniors and sweaty exercisers at the St.

The proposed development of the 208-acre Patrick Farm drew support Thursday night from construction workers needing jobs and opposition from neighbors wanting to preserve single-family zoning.

Gail Doroff, owner of Robin Hill School, said several youngsters have contracted Type A seasonal influenza, prompting the school to close Monday and yesterday.

POMONA - Arson investigators are trying to find out what caused a fire that heavily damaged a vacant village home that was in the process of being sold, officials said yesterday.

RAMAPO - Two separate cases - one involving a cow and the other involving chickens - that represent ongoing tensions within the community between religious practices and zoning rules, were heard in Town Court yesterday.

The Rockland Department of Health has ordered the kitchen at a yeshiva where a cow was slaughtered and strung from a tree shut down effective today.

5 Down: His last name is a relative of a lantern. If you got John Lampkin, congratulations, crossword puzzle fan! The Wesley Hills resident constructed the Mothers of Invention-themed crossword in tomorrow's Life&Style section.

RAMAPO - When a group of young men slaughtered a brown and white spotted cow and strung its carcass from a tree in the yard of a house being used as a yeshiva, they did more than anger people who live nearby, residents and community leaders said.

Neighbors were shocked when they looked out their window to see boys circling a calf in the backyard of a stately home now used by Yeshiva Bobover.

A cow was brought to a yeshiva on Route 306, then slaughtered, decapitated and hung upside down from a tree in full view of neighboring homes so students could learn how to butcher an animal according to Jewish law, police and health officials said yesterday.

Life was moving along as Michelle Bonsu had planned, then suddenly, everything changed.

It may be forever known as the show with the helicopter, but 'Miss Saigon,' now on stage at Antrim Playhouse in Wesley Hills, is about love, loss, compassion and war's impact.

Finkelstein Memorial Library serves the most diverse community in the state. It is not an easy task.

The state Court of Appeals has rejected the town's request to appeal a lower court ruling allowing four villages to sue over the town's adult-student housing zones.

The Department of Motor Vehicles in West Haverstraw - Rockland's only DMV office - will be closed for the foreseeable future.

WESLEY HILLS - Homeowners would pay slightly more in village taxes under a proposed budget that would decrease spending in the face of declining revenues.

Here's a recap of the March 25 Town Board meeting. Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and board members Edward Friedman, Frances Hunter, David Stein and Yitzchok Ullman were present.