Press Release from FEMA WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of New York and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Sandy beginning on October 27, 2012, and continuing. […]
Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef today reached out to state officials to alert them that Rockland County faces a shortage of petroleum, the result of the recent closure of the Port of New York, and ongoing power outages at gas suppliers, as a result of Hurricane Sandy. During the course of the day many […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF There appears to be a growing consensus that the school tax formula in New York State needs to change. As school costs have exploded in the last two decades, the property tax mechanism has posed many challenges, often causing homeowners, especially seniors on fixed income, to flee the neighborhood. Two Democratic candidates […]
According to O&R spokesman Mike Donovan, Hurricane Sandy caused unprecedented damage. Donovan called Sandy, “The worst storm in company history. Double the amount of damage from Irene.” Donovan said 80 percent of O&R’s customers were affected adversely by the storm. Compared to last year’s two epic storms, Sandy blows them away. Donovan said, “Snowtober was […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN For the past 27 years, during the week before Halloween, the Stony Point Ambulance Corps holds a walk-through haunted house when all the ghosts and goblins come out to trick or treat. The haunted house brings people from all over. It’s decked out with spooky décor, slanted walls, dead ends and much […]
O&R Press Release John J. McAvoy, the senior vice president of Central Operations at Consolidated Edison of New York, today was named president and chief executive officer of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) effective January 1. McAvoy succeeds William G. Longhi, who served as O&R’s president and CEO for nearly four years. Longhi, who […]