The Journal News reports than Clarkstown is putting dogs — and their owners — on a short leash. And yes, the pun was intended.

A new law limits leashes to eight feet and nuisance barking to 10 minutes between 7a and 10p and five minutes after 10p. Fines for improper canine supervision have been hiked to $20 a day for each day your dog is impounded.

The law prohibits “habitual loud howling, barking, crying, whining or conduct…that… creates a noise disturbance.” To be clear, this provision only applies to the dogs and not the local legislators who authored this bill.

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NYDOT officials will tell us the results of their nine year $54 million Tappan Zee Bridge Study this morning: we need a new bridge. It’s something TZB commuters already knew.

The replacement will include some form of mass transit. The most expensive proposal, examined by the bridge study commission, will create a light rail line running from West (Suffern) to East (Port Chester) crossing the Hudson on the new TZB. Continue reading →

After twenty years of planning, fundraising and construction, Rockland County Muslims can now answer the call to prayer in a place they can call their own.

Source: NYT, September 25: Constructing a Dream in Times of Tumult

“Corporate marketers want to own your baby: Learn how to stop them” is the first of a series of monthly forums for moms and mothers-to-be.  Laura Rose, founder of Active Moms of Rockland, will present a multi-media eye opening presentation in a baby friendly room this Tuesday at 12:30p. Bring baby if you wish and please come a little early for parking and sign-in. This is a free event open to mommies only (with babes 0-2 years).

“In the Know” was created as a forum to discuss issues effecting moms and babies, their health, environment, and wellbeing. Laura Rose is a certified health counselor, wellness facilitator, and  a mom of a 6 month old.
Tuesday September 23, 2008
12:30pm-1:45pm
“In the Know with Laura Rose”

Baby Room at the JCC of West Nyack
450 West Nyack Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994
845-362-4400 Ext 103

 Nyack News and Views is not partisan, but this should be fun!

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Our three-part celebration of artists and community begins with a cocktail reception, followed by an evening of performances at Riverspace Arts, concluding with “afterparties” with a “Get out the Vote” theme at The Nyack Center and other venues.

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• Toni Morrison - Nobel Laureate and author
• Bill T. Jones - Award winning choreographer & dance pioneer
• Bill Irwin - Two-time Tony Award winning actor & performer
• David Shire - Academy Award winning composer & actress Didi Conn with Lynne Wintersteller
• George Lamond, Soave - Recording Artists
• gabrielle lansner & company, modern dance collective
• And screening of a short film by Jonathan Demme

All proceeds from tickets to the performance will go directly to the Obama Victory Fund.

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Miele Sanitation should be fired as the village’s recycling vendor. For at least the 50th time since I moved to Nyack three years ago, I just got off the phone with them because they will not pick up my paper recycling. I have called three times this week alone, and when I just said that I might get a ticket because my bin is out on the wrong day I was told “too bad”. They are unprofessional and unreliable and should be fired.

There’s a major makeover for Main Street in the works complete with benches, new crosswalks and altered access to the municipal parking lot by Riverspace.

Landscape architect Michael Hakim from Hakim Associates in Harrington Park, NJ presented sketches and photographs describing the three-year collaboration of Nyack Village Board, the village’s Merchant’s Committee and the Chamber of Commerce. The plan covers Main Street from Franklin through Broadway, according to Carol Fleischmann, chair of the streetscape committee. Funding for the project will come from $100,000 set aside from parking fees and a $250,00 block grant the Village has received, according to Nyack Mayor John Shields.

Hakim, who presented to about 40 members of the public at the Nyack Center last Thursday, said the new streetscape would include: Continue reading →

Here’s an opportunity for tech fans, hikers and gamers. As well as children of all ages.

Wikipedia describes Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. Rockland County will host a geocaching tutorial and hike Saturday August 30 at 9am in Tallman State Park in Sparkhill.

A Rockland County trail guide docent will teach Geocaching using a Global Positioning System (GPS) as part of a 2-3 mile hike. Hikers should bring a GPS if they have one but it is not required.

Sources:  Rockland County Youth Bureau,  Geocaching.com, Wikipedia

ScienceNow Daily News says the NYC area is due for an earthquake. Yes, *this* New York City.

Geoscientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY count 383 sesmic events in our area since 1677. The research was compiled as part of studies for a new Tappan Zee Bridge and re-licensing Indian Point. You have to go back to 1884 to find a quake of magnitude five or greater. But in geological terms, that’s a blink of an eye.

Perhaps this is good material for a Nyack area author with writer’s block looking for their next best seller. If you someday soon see titles like

Panic in The Palisades,
Hudson Horror or
Nyack, The Village Under The Hudson try not to be too surprised.

Source: ScienceNow Daily News, August 22