Should we start  call Clarkstown "Hollywood" on the Hudson?

Well, during the past few weeks,  the world of television has discovered  Upper Nyack and other areas of Clarkstown.

NBC-television crews have been filming episodes of  hit comedy series, "30 Rock" and the drama, "Lipstick Jungle." Also, ABC is filming "Ugly Betty" at Davies Farm along Route 9W [...]

The Rockland Sheriff's Department and Westchester County police departments were among law enforcement agencies and first-responders across the Hudson Valley to get a piece of nearly $352,000 for equipment  through a funding program overseen by the U.S.Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New Yorkm announced.

The Rockland Sheriff's Department,  and the police departments of [...]

Rookie Ramapo Police Officer Baile Glauber, who has created quite a stir since  starting to patrol in June,  is doing temporary desk duty now after apparently  telling the brass she's had a reoccurrence of an ankle injury.

Glauber's ankle injury  first occurred at the beginning of her Rockland Police Academy training, causing her to miss nearly [...]

Stony Point police  and town officials will host a day of fun and safety from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on Patriot Hills Drive.

The annual "Stony Point Community Safety Day" will endeavor to offer something for everyone – from entertainment to serious safety messages.

Children and parents can gawk at an array of emergency vehicles [...]

The Orangetown Police Department will provide some pomp to publicly welcome five officers to the police force at 7:30 p.m. tonight during a Town Board session.

Even though four of the officers have been patrolling since August and one since April, the ceremony was planned for the officers, their families and the public, Lt. Donald Butterworth [...]

It seems like only yesterday that Tom Zugibe won election as Rockland district attorney, ousting Republican Michael Bongiorno. It hasn't been a year yet – and it's been nine months since Zugibe  took office.

Looking back to pay off some election costs and ahead to re-election year 2011, Zugibe's election committee and the Rockland Democratic Party [...]

On a  wintry night in January, Ramapo police charged former Assemblyman Ryan Karben with drunken driving.

Karben's court case – adjourned from tomorrow – is now scheduled to get under way about nine months later in South Nyack Justice Court.

Justice Thomas Mascola has scheduled a pretrial hearing for Oct. 24 and jury selection set for Oct. [...]

Clarkstown Republicans and Democrats have met in convention and have named their candidates for the Justice Court seat left vacant with the recent death of Joel Flick, who won another term last November.

The Democrats chose attorney Rolf M. Thorsen on Monday night. Last week, the Republicans named lawyer Daniel M. Weisberg, who also is a [...]

Ramapo Police Officer Ernst Tenemille got the attention of town officials.

As outlined in The Journal News on Sunday, the police brass has turned down his paper requests on technical grounds for Friday nights and Saturdays off on religious grounds. The seven-year officer has been invited to make his case before the Ramapo Police Commission (also [...]

Alario Magana got his new wheels on Saturday and gets to celebrate with his benefactors on Thursday evening at the Elk's Club in Haverstraw village.

The 11-year-old Haverstraw village boy has Cerebral  Palsey and gets around the village, the Farley Middle School and his home in a wheelchair.

His old wheelchair was falling part, held together by [...]

Regional EMS emergency medical technician Bonnie Ames will be the recipient of more good will and concern during a Thursday fund-raiser in Nyack to raise money for her rehabilitation and medical care.

Ames, 21, lost her right arm and became paralyzed after a Regional EMS ambulance hit a truck parked along the side of Route 59 [...]

Planning on taking the police officer civil service exam on Nov. 15 and feeling you need some help?

Well, there is a free tutorial from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 25 for residents who have received approved applications to take the civil service exam. The tutorial will be held in the Rockland Community College Cultural [...]

Clarkstown Republican leaders will convene tonight while Democrats will meet next week to  choose their candidates for  town justice to succeed Joel Flick, who died last month.

The Republican Committee is meeting at 7:30 p.m. today  in Clarkstown Town Hall. The Democratic Committee has  scheduled its nominating convention for  7 p.m. on Sept. 15.

Rockland GOP Chairman [...]

Driving east on Route 59 toward Nyack, it's hard to miss – especially at night.  The orangish  flashing sign is recruiting for the next police exam.

Located on the median, the Clarkstown Police Department sign flashes, "Police Exam.  Apply by 9/24/08. Call 638-5200."

Only if you are driving eastbound, can you read the sign.

The flashing advertisment is [...]

Rockland Sheriff's Department and Ramapo detectives still are trying to figure out what caused last week's fire that destroyed the second-floor of a Decatur Avenue  house in Ramapo, a block outside Spring Valley off Maple Avenue.

Investigators know where the fire started on the second floor – where a family grandmother lived – but not exactly [...]

It's a dog's world and three Rockland police departments received equipment through a non-profit group for their K-9 units.

Spring Valley, Clarkstown and Ramapo received the equipment from the Onyx and Breezy Foundation, an organization started in 2004 by Mark and Wanda Shefts in honor of their two Labrador retrievers. The foundation supports a wide range [...]

Rockland artists and entertainers will perform and raise money for Barack Obama's presidential campaign from 6 to 12 p.m. Sept. 27 at Riverspace Arts along Main Street in Nyack.

The three-part celebration for the U.S. senator from Illinois will begin with a cocktail reception at Murasaki Restaurant on Main Street and ending with 'after-parties" with a [...]

Democrat Barack Obama's local supporters will open a campaign headquarters for the presidential aspirant at 6 p.m. Monday at the Indian Rock Shopping Center in Route 59 in Ramapo.

From the storefront headquarters, Obama supporters will press his policies and ideas for the future of the nation during the days leading up to the November election. [...]

The 2008 campaign season officially kicks off Saturday for Rockland Republicans when the GOPers open their campaign headquarters in the Clarkstown Plaza strip mall off Main Street in New City.

A large McCain Campaign Headquarters banner will grace the storefront, along with a large sign for the Republicans favorite son, state Sen. Thomas Morahan, who is [...]

Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence will look to mend splintered fences with his police department tomorrow night by publicly taking back his criticism of Police Officer Jonathan Quinn.

St. Lawrence said tonight that he will make amends to Quinn personally and publicly, saying he will apologize if his calling Quinn insensitive to a Hasidic woman's religious [...]

Get out your dancing shoes and watch your toes.

The Rockland County Police Hispanic Society's 5th annual "Salsa into the Summer" Dance Fundraiser will be held Friday from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Nyack Seaport, Burd Street, Nyack.

Tickets are $35 at the door. And proceeds from the event will go to [...]

The Rockland Drug Court tomorrow will graduate people who completed a treatment course instead of spending time in jail.

Those approved for 11-year-old Drug Court pleaded guilty to a non-violent misdemeanor and took treatment instead of incarceration.

District Attorney Thomas Zugibe will give the keynote address at the graduation, which starts at 2 p.m. in the ceremonial [...]

Spring Valley police and Rockland prosecutors used a relatively new law to charge accused drug dealers.

As a result of the drug sweeps through the village and other communities, they  charged a number of accused drug dealers with selling cocaine, marijuana and other illegal narcotics within 1,000 feet of a school or facility that caters to [...]

Breakfast and college scholarship awards will be on the menu Saturday morning at the Nyack Seaport.

The O'Grady-Brown Memorial Scholarship Awards breakfast starts at 10 a.m. at the Nyack Seaport. The keynote speaker will be Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe.

Receiving $1,000 scholarships are:
• James H. Rahill of Stony Point and Don Bosco Prep High School.
• Michael [...]

The "mini-riot" caused  by two street gangs fighting in Nyack on April 16 has had some positive results.

Nyack School District hierarchy  – ie Superintendent Valencia Douglas – has been talking to Orangetown Police Chief Kevin Nulty and his brass about gangs on the streets and in schools, along with other issues in Nyack. Clarkstown police [...]