BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The County of Rockland and volunteers and board members of the Hi-Tor Animal Shelter in Pomona have been discussing plans to build a new Hi-Tor facility on the current facility’s existing property and property adjacent. The volunteers and board have gathered a generous array of supporters willing to foot the bill for […]
BY DAN PERRIN Despite getting clobbered in the fiscal cliff negotiations, Republicans have something to celebrate this year — the survival of health savings accounts, or HSAs. They had feared that President Obama would obliterate this critical cost-saving tool. Sure, the president had promised that ObamaCare would not bar HSA-qualified plans from health insurance exchanges. […]
Berkeley College recently honored Rosalyn Akalonu, JD, Faculty member, Justice Studies – Criminal Justice, with the 2012 Faculty of the Year Award for excellence in online instruction in the School of Professional Studies. Ms. Akalonu is a resident of New City, NY. The award recognizes a faculty member who is a role model in demonstrating […]
Phillip E. Goldstein, managing partner of Goldstein Lieberman & Company LLC, announces that the 64-year-old firm has once again ranked as the largest in the Hudson Valley region in terms of number of CPAs on staff by Westfair Publications, Inc.’s regional business journal, HV Biz. The listing appeared in the newspaper’s recently published annual resource […]
February 20 marked the one-year anniversary of Sean DePatto’s passing. Sean was a 9-year-old boy from Garnerville that passed away last year from leukemia. A memorial and balloon release in Sean’s honor took place on the anniversary, as friends, family, community members & the Hudson valley Nam Knights gathered to celebrate his life. Loved ones […]
FROM DA’S OFFICE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe and Rockland County town supervisors will announce a major initiative designed to eliminate sweeping fraud and abuse of the New York State STAR program. A recent audit of local homeowners has identified hundreds of cases of improperly or fraudulently claimed STAR exemptions in each of Rockland’s five towns. Suspected misuse […]