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Gerald McKinstry has been a staff writer for The Journal News in both Westchester and Rockland counties since 2004. He currently covers Westchester County government and politics in the region. He's also covered many other communities on both sides of the Hudson River. Before that, he was an editor with The Standard Star and Review Press, two weekly newspapers affiliated with The Journal News in southern Westchester. He started that post in 2001. He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Iona College. McKinstry grew up in a hilly place called Yonkers, “a city," as the saying goes, “where nothing is on the level." He is married and has two children.
E-mail Gerald McKinstry at gmckinst@lohud.com
A Grand View (grant) writer is on the New York Times Best Seller’s list.
Of course this needs some explanation; she hasn’t written a best-selling grant, or anything like that. That would be something.
Catherine Whitney is a writer. She lives in the waterfront village and serves on the Village Board where, among other things, she is [...]
A former county court judge that was appointed by Gov. George Pataki last year and later defeated at the polls, will start a new gig with Orangetown next week.
The Town Board this week appointed Barbara Gionta a deputy town attorney. She will start June 5.
The job includes an annual salary of $39,199 and is considered [...]
Supervisor Thom Kleiner has a challenger from one of his historically political strongholds.
Nicholas DelPizzo of Nyack is seeking the Republican Nomination to run for the supervisor’s slot. He already has the nod from the town’s Republican Committee and Thursday will be seeking the county’s endorsement at its convention.
Several Republicans had confirmed this and said DelPizzo, [...]
Months after a controversial energy drink was voluntarily pulled from some Nyack store shelves because of one local lawmaker, the company that makes the Cocaine drink says it’s pulling its product nationwide.
The Associated Press on Monday reported that Redux Beverages  that marketed its product as “Speed in a Can,� “Liquid Cocaine� and “Cocaine  [...]
Heinz Ahlmeyer Jr.’s reach may extend far beyond his hometown hamlet this week.
On a day when the Pearl River man  who died about 40 years ago on his first day of combat in Vietnam  was honored with the dedication of the Post Office in Pearl River, lawmakers announced that Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, D-Suffern, [...]
Some phone service that has been out since Monday and affected about 220 Verizon customers in the Orangeburg and Blauvelt area remained out today.
About 150 customers had already been restored yesterday with more expected today.
Blauvelt resident Melanie Garvey reported that her service was “in and out� today.
In an e-mail, Verizon spokeswoman Heather Wilner, said all [...]
Journal News/LoHud.com staff photo by Vincent DiSalvio
Take a walk down to Memorial Park in Nyack and you may see some rats or other vermin. Then again, you may not.
That’s because there are dozens of traps scattered about the park; they’re next to trash cans and lining the rocky area near the waterfront. There’s too many [...]
A New York based Irish immigration lobby, which has many supporters here in Rockland, reported that its recent trip to Ireland was a grand success.
The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform this week reported that more than 1,500 people packed into Jurys Ballsbridge last Saturday to support their family and friends who are living illegally in [...]
Cocaine illegal? No kidding.
An energy drink that sparked an outcry in Nyack and across the country was illegally marketed, the federal government said this week.
The Food and Drug Administration said Redux Beverages LLC was illegally marketing the drink as both a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement, according to a warning letter dated publicly [...]
No members of the public spoke.
That’s how the Orangetown Town Board report read this week. For those not familiar, it’s a basic report that the paper publishes after every meeting.
It has all of the board resolutions; most are matters that are important, but not necessarily breaking news. I take care of Orangetown’s with the [...]
An abuse of power or fair pay for service? That may be the question for some village taxpayers this budget season.
It’s that time of year and Nyack officials are calling for a 6.5 percent tax increase as part of the preliminary plan.
The $4.6 million budget for 2007-08 is about $240,000 more than this year’s and [...]
The Irish are again marching in the nation’s capitol expecting to make some headway with immigration reform. Thousands from all over the country are expected in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to tell the country’s leaders that change is needed.
They’re pushing for passage of a Senate bill, known as Kennedy-McCain, which calls for a guest-worker program [...]
Parking. Any mention of word in Nyack will get a strong reaction  it’s practically a bad word in the village. Meters, a garage, employee parking , tickets and walking  all hot topics.
The Chamber of Commerce of the Nyacks recently threw its opinion into the heated discussion. Earlier this week, the Board of Directors [...]
Other than traffic, parking tickets are the bane of so many driver’s existence. In Nyack, it can be a particularly sensitive topic.
In case anyone was wondering, reporters aren’t immune. While sniffing around Nyack Village Hall for some news, I foolishly parked in the 15 minute zone  those red meters  directly in front of [...]
Some village of Nyack leaders are calling for the symbolic elimination of the “N Word� and there has been no shortage of opinions on the matter.
Since writing about Mayor John Shield’s proposal last week to abolish the word from the village vernacular, several readers have given their two cents. The opinions varied, some complimentary, another [...]
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