When one thinks of April, thoughts of Spring come to mind, for it is a season of renewal. In our nation’s capital, we have the Cherry Blossom trees that surround the Potomac River. But, despite the tranquility of the season, we are reminded by the celebrated poet, T.S. Eliot, that ‘April is the cruelest month.’ Painfully, we have seen that his words are, hauntingly, prophetic. I doubt that Eliot could ever imagine the natural and man-made disasters that have marred the pages of the April calendar. On April 4, 1968, the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

Aimee Raupp’s First Wellness & Fertility Center Launches in the Heart of Nyack Local acupuncturist, author and women’s health expert, Aimee Raupp, has relocated and expanded her business in downtown Nyack to launch the first Aimee Raupp Wellness & Fertility Center in the country. The center has just completed renovations and interior decoration, and offers women in the area a full range of wellness and fertility services right in the heart of the Village. The Nyack center will serve as the blueprint for transforming Raupp’s other practices in Manhattan and the Hamptons into centers of their own. The Center is...

Welcome your child’s full potential with the new forefront purveyors of one-on-one education and tutoring at Pique Learning. Founded by former Nyack resident Helaina Altabef and east-coast educator Sarah Marmor, Pique inspires children and proud parents alike. As former classroom teachers, their in-the-field experience yields a seasoned yet contemporary approach to achieving your child’s optimal performance. Specializing in the impressionable early elementary and young high schoolers, those fortunate in the area to have experienced the Pique difference have been relieved of the burden conventional practices play on a...

NYACK, NY –  As a follow-up to the principles of healthy living laid out in her first book, Chill Out & Get Healthy (Penguin/NAL), popular women’s health and fertility expert Aimee E. Raupp, M.S., L.Ac., recently launched a new title, Yes, You Can Get Pregnant: The Diet That Will Improve Your Fertility Now & Into Your 40’s. Raupp’s second book is a compilation of her expertise and clinical experience helping hundreds of women, many of whom had been told their chances of getting pregnant were slim, to get pregnant and have healthy children. A biologist-turned-acupuncturist, Raupp incorporated Western scientific findings...