Eight consecutive nights of great music come to town July 24-31 during the 2011 Nyack Jazz Week. Each night features great music at venues inside and outside in Nyack and at Piermont's The Turning Point.
Nyack Jazz Week 2011 is sponsored by: The Rockland County Jazz & Blues Society, Friends of the Nyacks, The Hopper House, John Richmond and others.
This festival is just one of the many cultural attractions that make Nyack a great place to visit and live.
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There is a new dog run in Piermont thanks to the efforts that some local citizens put together. The Happy Dog Gallery in Piermont held a fundraiser and the Piermont Dog Run opened in May 2010. The board of trustees decided that the dog run could be on a village owned piece of land as long as there was no cost to the village. The fundraiser generated about $12,000, and there is even money left over to maintain the dog run. As of now, said Grace, the Piermont Dog Run has about 100 members and is maintained by volunteers. The dogs all say it is a great place to meet new friends.
Well I have often marveled at the beauty of deer crossing our crossing Nyack and Upper Nyack's streets in search of good grazing- probably to the great annoyance of homeowners who have planted expensive flowers. Well yesterday saw a different visitor in Nyack. According to an eyewitness account, a bear was seen crossing Midland Avenue just north of Nyack Hospital at around 7:35pm Wed evening. Nyack resident Roger S. Cohen saw the bear cross North Midland Avenue. "He seemed to lumber across the road and disappeared behind the Nyack Community Ambulance Corps building." Cohen says there was police activity in the area shortly after he saw the bear. No news as to where the bear headed, but hopefully he is ok, and headed back to where he came from.
The Nyack school system is getting a new superintendent. His name is James Montesano. He is taking over after three years leading the Paramus school district. Believe it or not he has three brothers who are school superintendents in the New Jersey area. All the brothers went off to college not to follow in their father's footsteps and stay out of the education business. They all gravitated back to education.
Montesano will have his work cut out for him protecting the core curriculum and trying to cope with state aid cuts and taxpayers who have had it with high education taxes.
In April, the Nyack Board of Education unanimously agreed to hire Montesano following a nationwide search. Montesano said the superintendent salary cap that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie imposed on all school districts in the state was the main impetus for him to start exploring the idea of working elsewhere.
Nyack will celebrate Independence Day on July 4 with fireworks at Memorial Park starting at approximately 8p. It is always a good idea to leave yourself extra time to find parking, and walk to your destination. I also think it is a good idea to bring along a light folding chair for maximum comfort as you view Nyack's spectacular fireworks display.
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