“The owners of a Spring Valley house in which five people died in a March inferno face legal actions from tenants who claim substandard conditions at the Lake Street house caused the fatal blaze. A separate legal action by the Town of…
“The Land Conservancy of New Jersey bought the land and donated it to the Ramapough. (NJ Spotlight News) In northern New Jersey, ownership of 54 acres of land around Split Rock Mountain was officially transferred this week to the Ramapough…
Editorial by Steven White in The Journal News “A fatal fire occurred in Spring Valley on March 4, but the sequence of events that took the precious lives of five family members began much earlier. Residents of Spring Valley, volunteer firefighters and…
Rockland County building inspectors have found more than 250 fire and building code violations at 10 properties owned by the landlord of 118 S. Lake St., where a fire killed five people on March 4. The fire − which took…
“New York again holds the unenviable distinction of having the most fatalities from fires in the nation — with five deaths in Spring Valley and one in Yonkers during the past week raising the state’s 2023 total to 45. Not…
The following is an email from Chestnut Ridge activist Jerry Liebelson’s Chestnut Ridge Communications. It was sent March 17, 2023, and those interested in receiving these notices can sign up directly via an email to PUBLIC@JLWARE.COM. “Hi all, On Wednesday,…
“A Rockland County judge on Tuesday dismissed felony counts of falsely filing inspection reports against former Spring Valley Building Inspector Ray Canario, dealing the District Attorney’s Office another blow in efforts to prosecute people resulting from the 2021 fatal adult…
“A New York State Supreme Court judge has rejected a resident’s request to void the county’s redistricting plan for 17 Legislature seats, allowing the county scheme to remain for the November elections. Justice Sherri Eisenpress upheld the county’s motion to…
“The five who were killed in an early-morning fire Saturday and those injured were all related, according to information from the Guatemalan Consulate in New York City. They were originally from Jocotán, a town in Chiquimula, Guatemala, and lived on…
“The fatal Lake Street inferno in which two children, ages 4 and 13, and three adults died likely was set off by electrical issues inside the two-family house, authorities said. A preliminary assessment found the the fire was accidental and…
