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Marine Vet Micka Nugent Hospitalized In Valhalla After Crash
Marine Corps veteran Mickaëlla "Micka" Nugent was seriously injured in a crash in the Orange County village of Harriman on Friday, April 12. She was then rushed to Garnet Medical Center in Middletown before being airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, where she currently remains. Because Nugent, a...
Newton eyes $3M in projects, including water-sewer upgrades, Memory Park hockey rink
NEWTON — The town council considered more than $3 million in public works projects in its latest meeting, including a series of water and sewer upgrades, a new boardwalk and the rehabilitation of the outdoor hockey rink next to Memory Park. The council on Monday night scheduled a half-dozen public hearings to be held at their May 13 session to vote on the projects, which also include $250,000 in road-repaving work around Newton. That followed a decision Monday to reject a bid received for the hockey facility and another vote to authorize the police department hire Brian Zakrzewski as a new police officer.
Agamems Beauty, a natural skincare line born from a 911 operator’s battle with stress
When Danielle Copper was 12, she helped run her first small business: a jewelry-making collective with her 10 cousins. They ran the business from their grandparents’ house in Middletown, New York. Their grandpa would drive them to a nearby Michaels store and buy a truckload of beads and fabric paints. They would later sell their jewelry to adults Upstate and when they returned home to Queens. They even gave shoppers a receipt. They called themselves the Cry’n Company (an acronym of their last names).
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