James Amandola ’02, former Manhattan College men’s lacrosse player and a social studies teacher in the South Orangetown School District, was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame at its 34th annual ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Smith Auditorium. Amandola also serves as assistant coach in both lacrosse and football for South Orangetown. In […]
The College Sports Notebook is compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The notebook will be published every Thursday, and also can be visited at www.rocklandcountytimes.com. Please send items of interest to marcmaturo@aol.com. Mustangs riding high The rings have already been […]
An East Ramapo student could be facing serious charges after a violent altercation with another student last week. The incident occurred last Wednesday afternoon, on a bus transporting East Ramapo students who attend the Haverstraw BOCES School. As the bus was passing through Clarkstown, one student stabbed another student in the back with a pocketknife. […]
Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef announced last week that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has opened a Disaster Recovery Center in Rockland County at Provident Bank Park in Pomona to assist victims of Hurricane Sandy. “This is a great opportunity for Rockland residents to find out about disaster assistance from knowledgeable FEMA personnel,” said Vanderhoef. […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Obama gets four more years; Democrats win GOP seats in Rockland, in 2012 you can go ahead and paint the county blue Rockland County and America has gone through yet another historic election. This time President Barack Obama became America’s third consecutive two-term president. Locally, there was even more good news for […]
The Rockland County Times today introduces our College Sports Notebook, compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, who is a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) and former president of the International Boxing Writers Association (IBWA). Maturo urges anyone connected with the collegiate sports scene to keep him […]