So it begins. Faga Savino, LLP, has sent the Town of Ramapo a Freedom of Information Act request, with 25 requests. The documents requested focus on the town’s acquisition of the Tilcon quarry, and the subsequent possible sale of the land to developer Sheldon Goldstein. The lawyer filing the FOI requests is James L. Hyer, [...]

This week’s Watcher column talks about “sidewalks to nowhere.” Surely you have them in your community. There’s a stretch of concrete, then nothing, maybe not even a road shoulder along a busy street, then more sidewalk, then maybe a few hundred feet of overgrowth. In lots of places, you can’t walk from here to there.

I [...]

This afternoon, in short succession, we received e-mailed press releases from the County Executive (2:16 p.m.) and the County Legislature leadership (2:22 p.m.) about drastic measures as the county tries to heal its $18 million operating deficit. The county ended 2007 with nearly $29.5 million less in revenue than anticipated, which was offset by [...]

Talk of re-establishing the national speed limit, at 55 mph, was a big topic of conversation this weekend. My sister and I were on our second roadtrip in as many weeks (yes, great timing with gas prices) and she asked what I thought about it. I was driving at the time because, well, relatively [...]

Monday night, more than 50 people from around the county showed up at a Haverstraw Town Board public hearing on United Water’s plans to place a pilot water treatment plant on the Hudson. Recall that United Water been ordered by the Public Services Commission to come up with a long-term water supply solution to Rockland’s [...]

Some of our LoHud forum posters took issue with one paragraph in the news coverage of Brandon Berman’s funeral yesterday — the mention that only the driver was wearing a seat belt in Saturday’s fatal crash on the New York State Thruway. Brandon was one of five in the car returning from the Jersey shore. [...]

Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, one of the county’s largest employers and still riding high on its ever growing foray into open-heart surgery and advanced cardiac treatment, has announced it will lay off 34 workers, staff writer Jane Lerner reports today.

That was part of 80 who lost jobs in its parent company’s facilities. The cuts were, [...]

Does Beth Modica’s aberrant behavior serve as a cautionary tale for anyone who lives outside a Greek tragedy?
Today in Sloatsburg, there are only victims.
Her victims are the boys she “partied” with, supplying booze and pot, whom she used for sex. Her victims are her own children, as acting state Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bartlett rightly [...]

Tomorrow night, South Orangetown’s school board holds a special meeting to explore its option for filling the trustee seat left empty when Howard Sokol—after more than a month of pressure from many community members—declined his seat on the board. The night after his May 20 election, Sokol was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated [...]

Yikes! The median price of a single-family residence fell 10.2 percent during the April-through-June selling period, typically the busiest of the year, according to the figures, compiled by the Greater Hudson Valley Multiple Listing Service, staff writer David Schepp reports.

As someone said, at least we’re not in suburban Las Vegas or some areas in California, [...]