CHESTNUT RIDGE - The new owner of the Jade ... was willing to take the time to so thoroughly research whether there was a viable sandstone building underneath, and we're sad there isn't.

Bais Yaakov Elementary School of Rockland County is leasing a building on the property, which the Manhattan-based Edwin Gould Foundation sold to Chestnut Ridge Ventures for $9.3 million in late 2012.

The 2010 Chestnut Ridge Centennial Celebration ... who will discuss the pre-historic seismic events that created the ridge and made it an ideal building site. Esther DeEugenio, former president ...