- June
- 25
Orangetown has hired its first certified Spanish-speaking police officer and has plans to hire a second. The town has been criticized for the past few years for being the only town police force without a Spanish-speaking officer.
Police Chief Kevin Nulty said he had been unable to hire a police officer who speaks the language because of town policy, which dictates that police officers must live in Orangetown at the time they’re hired. There were no Spanish speakers on the town list, Nutly said. On Monday, the Town Board passed a resolution allowing the hiring of an officer from the county’s Spanish-speaking list, which includes candidates from other towns.
For more on this story, read Orangetown hires first Spanish-speaking police officer.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am |
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- June
- 19
Orangeburg firefighters are weeks away from moving to their new home, said Kenny Gordon, chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners for the Orangeburg Fire District.
Gordon said exterior work on the department’s new firehouse was finished, but the building still needed still plumbing and electrical work and phone lines.
Voters approved $5.2 million bond in a 2006 referendum to build the 15,000-square-foot facility, which will have more office, garage and training space. The red-brick firehouse is on the corner of Orangeburg Road and Dutch Hill Road.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am |
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- April
- 25
Posted by Amy Padnani on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am |
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- March
- 3
The water was freezing cold but Barbara Noyes and about 150 others at yesterday’s Penguin Plunge were warmed by the energy of the crowd. “Some of the people were just so excited and lit up, lit up that they were helping,” she said. “It was really great.”
Noyes, a Blavelt resident and an officer with the South Nyack-Grandview Police Department, was among 20 or 30 people who jumped into the Hudson River yesterday afternoon as part of a fundraising event for Emma Monahan, a 6-year-old girl from Orangeburg who is severely debilitated. Emma was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis when she was seven weeks old. Hannan wrote a story about her last week, which can read here.
The Penguin Plunge, which was organized by Noyes and Pearl River resident Mike Lynch, raised about $10,000 to help the family with expenses that aren’t covered by insurance, such as building a handicapped-accessible area for Emma on the first floor of their house.
In Tappan, a Cut-A-Thon held yesterday at the Changing Heads hair salon raised about $5,000, said the salon’s owner, Bob Press. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than a dozen volunteers invited customers to get a $30-hair cut. The day’s profits were donated to the family. You can read my story on the event here.
I bumped into Emma’s mother, Anne Marie Monahan, at the salon, who said she was really touched by everyone’s participation. “It was just a very heartwarming feeling when someone doesn’t even know you and they want to help,” she said.
Posted by Amy Padnani on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm |
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- February
- 15
Posted by Amy Padnani on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 10:29 am |
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- November
- 29
Rumors and questions have been swirling about the status of the soccer fields being built in Orangeburg.
We reported today that the town had problems with the contractor, who allegedly walked off the job last month. Now, the town is scrambling to finish the work so the fields are ready in fall 2008.
Here is the link to the story: Orangetown soccer fields delayed, contractor off job
The Orangetown Mighty Midgets will have to wait at least another year before they can play on the new soccer fields. We’ll follow up on the story to see if the fields will be ready for the next fall season.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 7:08 pm |
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- August
- 6
Four years after buying property at the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, the town plans to announce K. Hovanian Homes as the preferred developer.
Tomorrow’s announcement won’t be a big surprise to anyone who has been following Orangetown politics of late, since Hovanian has been talked about in town for a while.
Still, this will make it official and will bring Hovnanian’s plans out into the open. Most recently, Hovnanian was pitching a plan for some 550 condos and townhouses for senior citizens. Stay tuned for details.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 2:34 pm |
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- June
- 25
Meet Rockland’s newest reporter: Hannan Adely.
Hannan joined The Journal News/LoHud.com in 2003 and will cover Orangetown and its villages  Nyack, South Nyack, Grand View and Piermont. (And all the hamlets  Blauvelt, Orangeburg, Palisades, Pearl River, Sparkill, Tappan, Upper Grandview  I hope I didn’t forget any!)
She replaces Gerald McKinstry, who moves to the other side of the river to cover several Westchester municipalities and cut his daily one-way commute by a good 20 miles or so. Hannan’s commute gets shorter, too  she lives in New City.
Hannan covered government and community issues in Yonkers, her hometown, before coming over here to Rockland.
Before she joined The Journal News, Hannan wrote about theWarren County, N.J., for The Star-Ledger and also covered the north Bronx, and politics in Central America.
You can reach her at hadely@lohud.com or 845-578-2439.
Posted by Amy Vernon on Monday, June 25th, 2007 at 1:51 pm |
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- April
- 26
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 phone lines should be working by this evening.
“As of this morning, service had been restored to most customers and we expected the repair to be completed and service fully restored by the end of the day,� she wrote.
She had said customers could call the repair number at 845-890-6611 to report issues or to receive a pro-rated bill.
Give us a ring (on a cell phone) or send us an e-mail if your phones aren’t working by Friday.
Posted by Gerald McKinstry on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 5:06 pm |
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- March
- 1
On a tip from TJN editorial page editor Nancy Cutler, this reporter decided to check out Coffee Spot Cafe, a recently opened coffeehouse on Route 303 in Orangeburg designed to lure the loungers, the gamers, the semi-gamers, the health-conscious and the caffeinated connoisseurs.
The café is easy to miss and takes a bit of extra care to pull into its precariously placed parking lot, but is oh so worth it if you are at all any of the above.
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Posted by Christina Jeng on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 at 2:00 pm |
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