Shoplifting in the era of heavy surveillance Sometimes it’s a frazzled mom with kids in tow who’s fed up with a self-checkout machine that just won’t scan the sliced... Local News 19 Jul 2022 | 12:03
Clockwise from top-left: Sister Carole Marie Troskowski, Sister Ann Marie Archer, Mother Maria Catherine Iannotti, Sister Mary Josita Worlock, and Sister Dolores Marie Poll. Parish Visitors from around the world meet in Monroe Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate recently gathered with Sister delegates from all their missions, including Nigeria and... Home 12 Jul 2022 | 08:00
Victory lap for MW Class of 2022 Monroe-Woodbury graduates merrily drove through Monroe and Central Valley on Monday in their own senior car parade. Around... Home 14 Jun 2022 | 01:46
Redistricting maps rejected, delaying primaries ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ A New York judge ordered Friday that the state’s congressional and state Senate primaries be delayed... Home 03 May 2022 | 07:33
Linking the “fly” ways - the connection between stream ecosystems, fly fishers and birds around them Beach Lake, PA – The connection between streams, fly fishers, and birds will soon be explained. The Upper Delaware Scenic... 25 Apr 2022 | 06:20
15 teen overdoses in two weeks stoke fears about new generation of synthetic marijuana At least 15 teenagers in the mid-Hudson region overdosed in the first half of March on marijuana-type products, ending up... Local News 30 Mar 2022 | 01:44
Covid and opioids make ‘a great storm of the worst possible things’ Covid has amplified the already aggravated, ongoing opioid crisis. During the first pandemic year, 2020, the tristate area... News 25 Jan 2022 | 06:15
Colleen Kelly and her husband, Michael Caravaglia, started omitting alcohol in January before it was cool; they’ve been doing Dry January for ten years. A month without booze? Locals give it a shot Retired school counselor Kerri Yezuit knows how to keep a New Year’s resolution. She quit smoking cold turkey on Jan. 1,... Local News 24 Jan 2022 | 02:10
Danielle Montuori with one of her chickens. She bought quails on impulse at the start of the lockdown but decided to to downsize before winter. “The chickens are enough to deal with,” she said. (Photo by Jason Wood) Backyard poultry boom enters post-honeymoon phase The storyline is familiar by now. Quarantined families flocked to keep chickens, which promised not only a supply of fresh... Local News 08 Jul 2021 | 03:23
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. Source: EPA.org. ‘You have to reassure people’ Richard Thornburgh, who steered Pennsylvania through the Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown beginning on March 28,... Letters to the Editor 04 Jan 2021 | 06:34
Drive through light shows is the saving grace of holiday events this year: pictured here is Watt Christmas Wonderland in Goshen, N.Y. Photo by Hanna Wickes. Local happenings to get you in the Christmas spirit Whether it’s a drive-thru light show or a socially distant Christmas Eve Mass, the holidays, like so many other things, look... Local News 14 Dec 2020 | 12:47
Meaghan Irwin, 28, is an EMT full time at St. Clare’s Hospital in Denville, N.J. When she isn’t working, the Milford, Pa., resident is donating her time to Delaware Township EMS, and going to school to become a paramedic. Meet the people at the front of the front lines Meaghan Irwin was on her commute home from St. Clare's Hospital, where she works full time as an EMT. “Tonight, when I get... Local News 11 Dec 2020 | 02:19
C. V. Shashikumar is being congratulated by the Harriman Mayor Stephen Wells for completing 25 years in business. C. V. Associates at 25 C.V. Associates is celebrating 25 years of providing consulting engineering services in the States of New York, New Jersey,... Business 17 Nov 2020 | 05:55
This is the sign Dennis Walto has placed on the lawn of his home in Bellvale. An election story As a Voter Protection Poll Observer in rural Pennsylvania on election day this year, I was struck by how spirituality and... Letters to the Editor 11 Nov 2020 | 11:13
Maximilian, Nico, Eddie the Lab, Sam, Matt, Thatcher the German Shepherd, and Ryan Carlozzi at Split Rock Falls in Elizabethtown, N.Y. Local family visits more than 80 waterfalls since March It started with a trip to Raymondskill Falls, just a few miles from home. Then, the Carlozzi family visited another local... Local News 30 Sep 2020 | 10:23