West Haverstraw News

A Rockland County judge resumed a hearing Monday to consider whether to allow a Cortlandt contractor to withdraw from a plea deal in relation to a natural-gas explosion that damaged several homes last year.

Haverstraw police have identified the man killed Friday by a train as 29-year-old Anthony Quevedo of Stony Point.

The Haverstraw Police Department recently hired five officers who will soon be out in the community as they go through field training.

United Water New York said it will seek a special rate hike to help recoup the more than $50 million the company says it has spent in its effort to gain approvals for the construction of a new Hudson River water treatment plant.

Haverstraw police have called for the Rockland Medical examiner to respond to the scene.

The village soon will have a full-time building inspector. The West Haverstraw Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of George Behn to that post.

The head of Rockland County's volunteer task force on illegal housing says rampant building and fire code violations in the Town of Ramapo are a "time bomb waiting to go off" and require a state investigation.