Portions of Route 306 Slated for Repaving Under Statewide Renewal Project A nearly two-mile-long stretch of Route 306 running through the heart of Monsey is slated for a face-lift under a $151 million paving project announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Approximately 1,013 miles of pavement adversely affected by extreme weather will be renewed in 95 different projects statewide. At least one roadway will be improved in each of the state’s 62 counties, with both Route 202 in Haverstraw and Route 306 among 18 roadways earmarked for $22.7 million Mid-Hudson region improvements scheduled in Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, Dutchess and Putnam counties. A total sum of $2 million will be spent to repair damage to Route 306 between Route 59 and Viola Road, making roads safer and smoother and promoting fuel
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Police Investigating Burglary at New City Yeshivah It was an unscheduled vacation day for students at ASHAR after school officials cancelled classes on January 31 because of a burglary at the New City yeshivah. Staff arriving at the school, located on New Hempstead Road just east of the Palisades Parkway, found that multiple locked doors had been forced open just before midnight the previous night. With students already en route to the yeshivah, a message was sent out through ASHAR’s internal messaging system notifying parents of the break-in and that their children needed to be picked up because school was cancelled pending a police investigation. No one was in the building when the burglary occurred just before midnight. A statement released by the Clarkstown Police Department categorized the burglary as “a crime of opportunity with no undertones of hate.” Anyone with any information regarding the burglary is asked to call the Clarkstown Police Department at 845639-5800.
Psychiatrist Declares Monsey Stabbing Spree Suspect Mentally Unfit to Stand Trial
efficiency. Roadwork is slated to begin in the spring and will extend through next winter, with no target date set yet for the Monsey paving project. The improvements are being made as part of Cuomo’s PAVE NY initiative. “New York continues to make nation-leading investments in the renewal and modernization of the state’s roads, bridges, transit systems and airports,” said Cuomo. “These investments are laying the foundation to ensure sustained growth throughout the 21st century in tourism, business and workforce development, and eco-
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A psychiatrist hired by the defense has found Grafton Thomas, the man charged with the Chanukah stabbings in Rabbi Chaim Leibish Rottenberg’s home, mentally incompetent to stand trial. The Journal News reported that attorney Michael Sussman, who is representing Thomas, asked a federal judge to seal the psychologist’s report, citing privacy issues. Sussman also asked that a competency hearing be held in an effort to have his client avoid to stand trial on a fourteen-count indictment brought by a Rockland County grand jury, which included six counts of at-