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Have you ever seen a hiking pig? Meet Upstate New York's 'Eleanor Pigby' from the Summit School.

Have you ever seen a hiking pig? Meet Upstate New York's 'Eleanor Pigby' from the Summit School.

Rockland County reported 338,329 people in the 2020 Census, a change of 8.5% from the 2010 U.S. Census.

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...

A home in the Lower Hudson Valley which is called one of the most breathtaking properties in New York State is back on the market for a discounted price.

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...

UPPER NYACK - Nyack High School senior Jadyn Turner remembers the last time she saw her cousin Alyssa Alhadeff. The Turners were visiting the Alhadeffs in Parkland, Florida, and the cousins were planning to see each other very soon. Weeks later, Alyssa was killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Alyssa was shot 10 times. She was a 14-year-old freshman and a soccer standout. On Friday, Jadyn Turner stood outside her high school with state Sen...

UpdatedThu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:22 pm ET Replies(5) South Nyack village officials have sued the yeshiva congregation that bought Nyack College for ignoring local and state building and zoning laws. (Google Maps) SOUTH NYACK, NY — The village of South Nyack has filed suit against Yeshiva Viznitz, the new owner of the massive Nyack College campus, for starting a school and making structural changes without complying with state, county or village codes and laws. The lawsuit was filed in Rockland Su...

Much like Beth Harmon’s photographic memory of chessboards in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, Upper Nyack’s Department of Public Works employees have a mental map of every inch of every street, curb, drain, and mailbox as they set out to plow snow. Most of us think of snow removal as a brute force problem, but it’s more complicated than that. It’s both science and art. Imagine being at the wheel of a large plow at night with limited visibility looking for snow covered landmarks, all ...