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Amy Padnani joined The Journal News in March 2007 as a reporter covering Clarkstown. A New York City native, Amy graduated from New York University, where she studied journalism and web programming. She worked for several papers in the New York metropolitan area, most recently at The Star-Ledger, covering several towns in central New Jersey.
E-mail Amy Padnani at apadnani@lohud.com
Don't forget that the next public forum on developing Clarkstown’s comprehensive plan is scheduled for this Thursday at Clarkstown North High School. Officials said they're looking for suggestions from residents on what should be included in the comprehensive plan, which they want to complete in 2009. Some of the topics include housing, recreation, transportation and [...]
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Just a reminder that Clarkstown officials are holding their next public forum on developing the town's comprehensive plan on Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Congers Community Center. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and last until about 9:30 p.m. People are invited to offer suggestions on topics such as housing, recreation, transportation and cultural [...]
Check out what the town supervisor has planned for 2008 by viewing highlights of his speech last week in the video podcast below.
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Rockland's first baby of the year born at Nyack Hospital
Rockland's 'Crow House' named national historic site
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Repairs to weak spots on Tappan Zee Bridge will begin in spring
So I'm filling in for Christina Jeng for this week's Week In Review podcast while she produces the Year In Review podcast. You can find the Year In Review podcast on the Inside Rockland blog on Jan. 1. Enjoy!
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It's that time of year again – election season. Even when I'm indoors, typing up a story at my work desk, I can tell. That's because I get all kinds of calls from people talking about signs. You know the ones – they're usually red, white and blue with one name written in a huge [...]
Doug Hostetter, a Democrat running for Clarkstown Town Board, is planning a "Meet the Candidate/Campaign Fundraising Party" for Sunday, October, 14, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Hostetter, whose top two issues are controlled spending and preserving the environment, is running alongside incumbent Shirley Lasker. The event is to be held at Kristi Zea's house [...]
I wrote a story for Sunday's paper on a group of West Nyack residents and businessmen who came up with some largescale solutions to eliminate flooding on Route 59. In the story, I mentioned some "choke points" they described. Basically, it's where railroad trestles, culverts or bridges could be widened and/or heightened to allow more [...]
Earlier this week, I visited St. Agatha Home in Nanuet moments after the bell tower was removed from the top of the Little Flower House, which was one of the first buildings built on the campus. It was an emotional moment for many, like Kevin Donahue, who has been working on the campus for 31 [...]
Local rap artist Stephen Redmond called me a week or so ago to let me know his new YouTube video is up. If you recall, the artist, who calls himself Lucky Me, offended New City residents with his first video, "I Love New City." Residents said it incorrectly depicted the hamlet as full of rich [...]
I've met Shirley Lasker and her hubby, Steve Fox, on a number of assignments. The first time I saw them together was when I was working on a story about STAR Kids setting up a roller hockey program.
At one point during my interview with Fox, he nodded his head in Lasker's direction and said in [...]
When working on a story about a woman whose son has life-threatening allergies to all traces of dairy and eggs, it seemed a common problem the mother faced was that people are too skeptical about the idea of severe food allergies to take her seriously. (You can read the story on Lohud.com by clicking here.) [...]
I've received a couple of interesting responses to my follow-up story on the code enforcement officer who was stabbed last week in Clarkstown. (You can read the story at Lohud.com by clicking here). I've learned that in Nassau County, all of the code enforcement officers are sworn in as peace officers. Some feel the job [...]
My introduction to Clarkstown included a “meet and greet� with Supervisor Alexander Gromack. While sitting on the plush leather couch in Gromack’s office with several town officials, a noise, not in the distance but really close by, drowned out his words. As the sound continued, I realized it was an alarm from the nearby firehouse. [...]
