- July
- 18
Posted by Ben Rubin on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am |
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- July
- 2
This picture was sent to me by Donald Sullivan, a Tappan resident who is organizing opposition to a proposed Orange & Rockland substation on Oak Tree Road. Sullivan and other residents are meeting on a regular basis to plan their protest and are speaking up at town meetings. They’ve also put up signs like this:
Posted by Hannan Adely on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm |
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- July
- 1
The county is just about done with improvements to the center of Tappan, where crews replaced sidewalks, repaved streets, did drainage work and added decorative light posts. The new look, with brick sidewalks and cobblestone print on the road surface, was meant to evoke old-world charm in the historic area.
Business owners say the county should have taken the work a step further by taking down the plethora of parking and road signs. They also hope to see some resolution soon to the lawsuit the local fire association filed against the county. Work in front of the firehouse has been stopped since December and there’s a big construction hole there.
For more on this story, read: Tappan improvements almost done, but lawsuit goes on.
Have you seen the improvements. What do you think?
Posted by Hannan Adely on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 at 3:41 pm |
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- June
- 12
A group of residents will meet tonight in Tappan to organize a fight against Orange and Rockland’s plans for a new substation in their neighborhood. O&R wants to build the facility on a wooded lot on Oak Tree Road, which residents say is too close to their homes and to wetlands.
The meeting takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Tappan firehouse at 123 Washington Street.
For more information on the project, read Plan for Tappan power station riles residents.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 3:42 pm |
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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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- 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
- 20
Nanuet resident and Texas A&M freshman Bruce Brown is working to raise money for the Hokies Spirit Memorial Fund.
According to TheBatt.com, the Web site for A&M’s student newspaper The Battalion, Brown is working with fellow mechanical engineering major Stephen Peck, Brown is working to bring varied campus organizations together to sell T-shirts to benefit Virginia Tech’s fund. They’re getting the T-shirts and Bruce Brown are bringing organizations on campus together to sell T-shirts to benefit Virginia Tech University in its time of mourning.
The T-shirts will arrive Monday and will be on sale through May 9, the last day of classes.
They’ll also hang a huge banner with Virginia Tech’s logo on it that anyone can sign.
Want to know more? Send an e-mail or join the Facebook group “Aggie VT Support.”
Also raising money:
• NY Jungle Hair, Body & Soul, a Tappan spa, will donate $5 for every client they serve today (Friday, April 20) through Sunday (April 22). They’ll also collect any donations folks would like to give  make checks payable to Virginia Tech Foundation Inc. and write “Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund” in the memo line. The spa will forward all donations to Virginia Tech on April 30. Wanna know more? Send an e-mail, call 845-398-0511 or stop by 15 Route 303, Tappan.
Posted by Amy Vernon on Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 10:29 am |
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