No one was reported injured after a car drove into a bank in Nanuet on Friday afternoon. That’s according to News 12. The car was apparently driven into the Webster Bank Branch on Route 59 in the Rockland Plaza shopping center. The cause of the crash, unknown. The day before that crash, Ramapo Police had to deal with a similar incident. They say around 12:27 Thursday afternoon, Ramapo Police got a report from Spring Valley cops of a driver in need of assistance. Ramapo Police say they saw a car heading into oncoming traffic on West Eckerson Road in Hillcrest. The car veered off the road, struck a curb, and crashed into a house. They say the driver, a 61 year-old man from Monroe, appeared to be drunk, and several open containers of alcohol were found in the car. He was arrested and charged with felony DWI. The man also had a prior DWI conviction in the last ten years. There were no reported injuries.
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Sunday Marked 4th Anniversary of Fatal Evergreen Fire in Spring Valley
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the fatal Spring Valley fire that took the lives of a Spring Valley Firefighter and the resident of the adult home he was trying to save. 35 year-old Jared Lloyd was a 15-year veteran of Spring Valley’s Columbians Fire Engine Company Number One and was one of the first on-scene of the fire that leveled the “Evergreen Court Home for Adults” assisted-living facility. Oliver Hueston, a resident of the home, was also killed. Rabbi Nathaniel Sommer and his son, Aaron, pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the blaze. Both were sentenced to probation after admitting they used a blowtorch and coals to prepare the facility’s kitchen for Passover.
Haverstraw Municipal Golf Course Opens for Season
The town of Haverstraw golf course opened for the season yesterday. Town supervisor Howard Phillips says the Philip J. Rotella golf course is among the state’s jewels…
The course first opened in 1984 and was named for former supervisor Phil Rotella in 2002. For more information, visit the golf course’s website, RotellaGolfCourse.com.
Deadline for Congestion Pricing to End Comes Tomorrow, Status Unclear
The deadline for New York to end its congestion pricing program is tomorrow, that after the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration withdrew its support last month. New York State and the MTA launched court challenges to the plan, putting it into limbo, but that deadline still hangs out there. New York State Senator Bill Weber of the 38th District noted the governor and the president met recently and that probably came up…
Rockland Assemblyman Patrick Carroll of the 96th District, covering Clarkstown and parts of Haverstraw and Orangetown, says the feds should just stay out of it…
The Hochul administration and the MTA are reportedly planning to let the deadline come and go, allowing the tolling to continue. After a false start last year, the plan began January 5th.
NY Governor Warns People to Get Vaccinated Against Measles as it Spreads Around the Country
With the measles once again spreading and threatening several states across the country, including New York, the governor is urging New Yorkers to get vaccinated. In a press conference yesterday, Governor Kathy Hochul said so far there have been only four cases here in the state from this newest outbreak…
Acting Commissioner of Health, James McDonald, said the current measles vaccine is safe and has been effectively protecting people for more than half a century…
Measles is highly contagious and spreads when you breathe it in or just by touching a contaminated surface. For more information, click here to access links from the state and county.