As mother nature teased Rocklanders with a gorgeous Tuesday afternoon, a winter goliath was gathering steam. These kids in Haverstraw played basketball in the relatively balmy weather Tuesday, unaware a major winter storm was soon to come. As the Rockland County Times goes to print several inches of the white stuff and strong winds are […]
PEARL RIVER, NY March 6, 2013 1 p.m. — O&R has declared a company-wide Storm Watch today in anticipation of a significant storm system’s hitting the region today and continuing through Thursday into Friday. Local weather forecasters are predicting heavy rain, changing to snow and high winds for today through Friday. O&R Emergency Response Operations […]
A younger relative of Spring Valley Trustee Anthony Leon has announced his candidacy for county executive. Mr. Vladimir Leon has run as a wild card candidate in other local races and has failed to garner many votes. Trustee Leon has endorsed David Fried for county executive. To the editor, Today March 6, 2013 is the […]
NY’s 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino continues his crusade to bring spending under control in the Buffalo Board of Education. Here is another in his series of fiery public letters he has written in the past year dealing with Buffalo school and state political issues. To: Phil Rumore, President, Buffalo Teachers Federation From: […]
COMMENTS BY ILAN SCHOENBERGER WITH REGARD TO THE PROPOSAL TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE ROCKLAND COUNTY LEGISLATURE I was a member of the Legislature when we redistricted County government to go from a legislature elected town-wide to single member districts. At that time I voted to support reduction of the Legislature from 21 members […]
PRESS RELEASE Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski (D-New City) announced that his bill to restrict surgical devocalization procedures on dogs and cats passed the Assembly (A.1204). The legislation would allow the procedure only in cases where it is deemed medically necessary to treat or relieve a physical injury or illness. “This is a cruel and inhumane procedure […]