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Report: Mortgage Applications Jump 20%

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While some experts are seeing increased activity in homebuying due to drops in mortgage rates, a local expert isn’t sure that’s entirely the reason. According to a recent CNBC report, in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index, the total mortgage application volume jumped slightly more than 20% last week compared with the week before. Ann Zeilingold of FM Home Loans in New City says springtime brings more buyers and sellers out into the market…

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages dropped from 6.88% to 6.73%. That is the lowest it’s been since December 2024.

RCC Senior Club Meeting Friday to Feature Well-known Entertainer

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The RCC Senior Club is holding its monthly meeting on Friday. Acting club President Lou Morris says this meeting features the well-known entertainer Anthony Duke Claus…

That’s Friday at noon at the Ellipse in RCC’s Technology Building, and Morris says it’s open to everyone in Rockland and there’s no fee. For more information and to learn more about the group, call 845-540-9739 or visit RocklandCountySeniorClub.org. If you go to the meeting, you’re asked to bring a non-perishable food item for the RCC cupboard.

News Briefs: Bus Crash on GSP Injures Over a Dozen Heading for New Square Monday Night

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Over a dozen people were injured, including one child who was in critical condition, when a school bus heading to New Square from Lakewood, New Jersey, crashed on the Garden State Parkway in Montvale last night. The accident happened around 7:30 on the northbound side of the parkway just north of Exit 171 near the James Gandolfini Service Area. 31 people were on the bus at the time. There’s no word on what caused the bus to crash and topple over onto its side, and the incident’s under investigation by New Jersey State Police.

Brooklyn Man Charged with Using Fake Money to Buy Gift Cards in North Rockland

A Brooklyn man has been accused of using counterfeit money to purchase over $14-hundred dollars’ worth of gift cards from a North Rockland store. Stony Point Police say 27 year-old Myles Rowley tried to buy the cards in August 2022 at the Walgreens in Stony Point. Rowley was charged with Possession of a Forged Instrument and Grand Larceny. He was processed, arraigned, and released. He is due back in Stony Point Justice Court next week.

Bomb Threat Evacuates Suffern Walmart Sunday, Ramapo Police Investigating

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A bomb threat in the town of Ramapo caused the evacuation of the Suffern Walmart Sunday night. Ramapo Police told The Journal News two people entered the store around 7:15 Sunday evening and informed employees that they had a bomb, and then left. That prompted the evacuation, but the threat appears to have been a hoax. Ramapo supervisor Michael Specht says the incident remains under investigation…

If you have information on the bomb threat, call the Ramapo Police Department at 845-357-2400.

Deal Reached to End Prison Strike in NY, 2K Officers Fired

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A deal was reached over the weekend that put an end to New York’s three-week prison strike by corrections officers, but not before 2,000 still-striking officers were fired. Published reports said the employees were to return to work yesterday and while many did, others did not. New York Assemblyman Karl Brabenec of the 98th district, covering western Ramapo and parts of Orange County, says one of the issues at the heart of the strike was the suspension of the HALT Act…         

Part of the most recent agreement includes pausing parts of the HALT Act for 90 days. Meanwhile, the state is investigating two high-profile deaths of inmates recently, one that happened late last month in upstate New York. The New York Times reported 22 year-old Messiah Nantwi was beaten unconscious by multiple correction officers at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy shortly before he died. Six guards have been charged with murder in the death last December of 43 year-old Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Prison across the street from Mid-State. The incident was caught on body-worn cameras.