The Town of Newton recently joined other regional municipalities in hiring an in-house mechanic for fleet vehicle and DPW equipment maintenance and repair after choosing not to renew their previous contract with an independent repair shop. Photo by Mandy Coriston for Straus News. What’s driving mechanics away? A nationwide shortage of auto technicians is impacting our region, leading to a need for increased in-house municipal services,... Local News 22 Nov 2024 | 12:47
Cursive meets coding Ask your grandparents what primary school was like for them and they may recall strict penmanship lessons and sharp slaps... Back to School 16 Aug 2024 | 11:47
The ABCs of bus stop safety Designed with safety at the forefront, school buses are too heavy to roll over, too bright to miss and 70 times safer than... Back to School 16 Aug 2024 | 11:44
‘Too stressful’: why some students are saying no thanks to standardized tests As students across the tristate region sharpened pencils - or, increasingly, fired up computers - in preparation for multiple... Local News 02 May 2024 | 11:23
Photo illustration by Karolina-Grabowska, vis pexels.com Fetterman draws praise for getting help for depression When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between... Police & Fire 20 Feb 2023 | 11:43
Margaret M. McGrath Margaret M. McGrath passed away peacefully on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at her home in Florida, New York. She was 76 years... Obituaries 28 Sep 2022 | 04:19
Goose culling shot down, options hatch at Tuxedo Park hearing The Tuxedo Park goose population was the focus of a public hearing last Wednesday at the Village Board of Trustees meeting.... Home 22 Aug 2022 | 05:41
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
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
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
Anna Yuknavich Anna Yuknavich, a long-time area resident, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, at the Valley View Center... Obituaries 20 Apr 2020 | 01:22
A bald eagle at Shohola Marsh Reservoir, one of only two eagle release sites in Pennsylvania during the recovery program in the 1980s. With financial support from the Federal Endangered Species Fund and the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Pennsylvania Game Commission imported young bald eagles from Canada and transferred them to Shohola. The game commissions says descendants of those birds nest in Pennsylvania and neighboring states today. ( Photo by Pamela Chergotis) Trump overhauls endangered species protections (AP) The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark... News 13 Aug 2019 | 08:25
