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The decorations committee of the Old Home Week homecoming celebration had just turned on the electric light display in the Square.

It is a mental picture you won’t forget. An elegantly dressed 60-year-old man driving a herd of geese from the grounds of his large, magnificent turreted mansion on a hill in Upper Nyack to the Hudson River daily. His rather comical image stuck in local memory and is said to be the reason Upper Nyack […]

NEW YORK – The Fireboat John McKean might have figured out this retirement thing after all.  Purchased at auction in 2016 — for $57,400, by Westchester restaurateurs Michael Kaphan and Edward Taylor — the McKean, which ferried people to safety and pumped water to the smoldering World Trade Center on 9/11, has had a peripatetic five years. It has been acting more like a Manhattan socialite than a hard-working former member of the FDNY. It flirted with the restaurant business, had run-ins...

Wanamaker, gregarious and personable, said hes confident he can lead the department after three-plus years as captain and 33 years on Rockland Countys largest police force. Hes held most positions, from patrol officer and detective to honor guard and overseeing specialty units. Hes paid 263,483 as captain. McCullagh retired with a salary of $292,228. Following in footsteps  "I think of our family legacy, as opposed to personal ego," Wanamaker said, sitting at the chiefs desk at police hea...