BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL At Tuesday’s town board meeting in Clarkstown, a special presentation opened up the agenda. The Youth Police Academy celebrated their graduation from a 10-week program given by the Clarkstown Police Department. There were twenty-four teenage graduates from different areas in Clarkstown. “The academy has been in existence for over eleven and […]
Schneiderman Threatens to Sue EPA Over Clean Air Violation The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reportedly left methane, a chemical compound that is harmful to the environment and released in large quantities by oil and gas companies, out of a recent update in air pollution standards for those industries. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced on […]
Longtime Venezuelan president and self-described socialist revolutionary Hugo Chavez could be headed to the grave soon. He even has publicly named his preferred successor, Vice President Nicolas Maduro. The 58-year-old Chavez, who has fought cancer several times in the past, has been receiving treatment in Cuba for pelvic cancer and the prognosis does not look […]
Fast action by Haverstraw firefighters confined a significant blaze at Broadway Cleaners on Main St. from spreading out further. The blaze could have been a major disaster as apartment were within its reach.
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF County legislator and 2013 candidate for candidate for county executive Ed Day (R-New City) held his first official fundraiser and campaign speech to supporters on Tuesday. Nearly 200 showed up for the event, helping Day get his campaign off on the right foot both in terms of morale and finances. Day laid […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES One of Rockland County’s most historic and picturesque bridges will be re-built by the Town of Orangetown in downtown Tappan next year, and both historians and residents appear to be united in their praise of the project. The six-month effort will be undertaken when the weather breaks […]