Taxable or Non-Taxable Income?

IRS Tax Tip 2012-25 Although most income you receive is taxable and must be reported on your federal income tax return, there are some instances when income may not be taxable. The IRS offers the following list of items that do not have to be included as taxable income: Adoption expense reimbursements for qualifying expenses […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES HEADING TO MSG TO WITNESS MORE LIN-SANITY

The Rockland County Times was in the press detail when the Lin-sanity all started back on February 4 in the Knicks vs. Nets contest at MSG. Editor Dylan Skriloff had already written half the article he intended to publish before the game, most of it waxing about how the Knicks season had become a funeral […]

EPA Takes Interest in Chestnut Ridge

Children in the East Ramapo and Ramapo Central School Districts are getting cleaner running bus fleets through a grant program awarded to Chestnut Ridge Transportation from the EPA. The transportation company, a member of The Trans Group, LLC (Spring Valley, NY), has been awarded the grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace and/or upgrade […]

County Looks to Future with TOR and TZx Bus Services

The Rockland Department of Public Transportation announced this week that ten vendors have downloaded the RFB from the Purchasing Department website for the county’s fixed-route bus service. The RFB was issued on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 and bids are due back on March 16, 2012. The county expects to see a number of competitive bids […]

HAVERSTRAW BRICK MUSEUM CELEBRATES PRESIDENT’S WEEK AND BLACK HISTORY

On Sunday the Haverstraw Brick Museum will hold a presentation and display to celebrate Presidents Week and Black History. The featured speaker will be Frances Pratt, president of the Nyack branch of the NAACP. Mrs. Pratt traveled from North Carolina to New York as a child. Her Civil Rights work earned her the 1986 Heroine […]

Beltone Comes to Rockland, Hearing Impaired Will Benefit

The Beltone Hearing Care Center in New City opened its doors recently in a large grand opening ceremony, drawing in local officials and residents. Belltone is noted for having the latest in digital hearing aid technology available to its patients, including its “True” devices. These virtually invisible hearing aids are bluetooth compatible and can wirelessly […]