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Nyack’s Flying Heroes I would wager more than 4,000 young men played football at Nyack High School. Starting in 1927 Nyack played against the other schools in Rockland, and i[...]
Piermont’s Unsolved Murder Back during the big war just about everyone in Piermont knew “Pops” Ferrante. He’d been around the village for decades. He and his wife, Raffael, came to[...]
Lost In the Hudson Recently I was putting together information for some upcoming column by reading though old newspapers in the Nyack Library History room when I can across a story[...]
My crime spree I guess it’s about time I come clean!   If someone searches the police archives in the Nyack Village Hall, I’m sure they will discover my record. No, my offense is n[...]
Nyack’s Sawbones If you lived around Nyack for a bit you might know Broadway was once called Old Hook Road, though could have been called Doctors Avenue. I searched the records at [...]
A Christmas Love Story “At Christmastime, when men and women everywhere gather in their churches to wonder anew at the greatest miracle the world has ever known, the story I like b[...]
Angel of the Battlefield One show I hate to miss on TV is the reruns of M*A*S*H. I enjoy the comedy amidst the horrors of war. The characters are wonderful: Hawkeye, Trapper, BJ, R[...]
160 Years of Service In the winter of 1851 many were still alive who witnessed the birth of America; in August the yacht America won the first America’s cup;  November saw Herman M[...]