Homebody Books with Owner Elisabeth Sydor Tell me a bit about your background? What did you do before starting your business? I worked in communications at Columbia University for nearly 20 years. Before that I freelanced as a writer and editor, and while raising my young son, as a babysitter, tutor, and shiatsu therapist. And […]

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Yu Ying “Linda” Wei, 89, on September 26, 2025 at HMH JFK Medical Center.  She was the beloved wife of Rui Liang Liu, and cherished mother of Peng Wa Lao and her husband Sam Chao, Joe Liu and his wife Shirley and the late Jian […]

POMONA, NY — Rockland County is ready to turn up the volume as the 2025 Rockland Music Fest hits Clover Stadium, home of the New York Boulders, on Saturday, September 27. Now in its 11th year, the annual festival promises to “put the ROCK back in Rockland” with a high-energy lineup spanning multiple genres — […]

Stony Point, NY — Willow Grove Elementary students received a lesson in courage, community safety, and cutting-edge law enforcement when K9 Remy, Rockland County’s first Certified Electronics Detection Dog, paid a visit alongside her handler, Detective Tim Hayes of the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office. Unlike traditional K9s trained to detect drugs or explosives, Remy […]

Nyack, NY – The Mario M. Cuomo Bridge will be illuminated on the evening of Friday, September 19, 2025, as part of Stillbirth Prevention and Awareness Day, casting a symbolic glow of remembrance and hope across the Hudson Valley. Each year, about 21,000 families in the United States experience the heartbreak of stillbirth. The awareness […]

Camille J. Dolce, 89 of River Vale, NJ and formerly of Valley Cottage, NY was called to eternal rest on September 17, 2025 after a long illness. She was born at Bronx Union Hospital on July 16, 1936 to the late Mildred and Dominic Camasto. She graduated from Evander Childs High School followed by Gibson […]