BY GEORGE J. DACRE With clever staging and some fine acting, the Shades Repertory Group did a good job of creating a women’s prison atmosphere in their most recent play “Clover,” written by Samuel Harps and directed by Mel Hancock. “Clover” tells the story of a young, pregnant black woman Marlene B. Davenport (played by […]
To the Editor, Tuesday night, the Rockland County Legislature voted 11-6 to create a Local Development Corporation (LDC) to sell the Summit Park Nursing Home & Hospital. I was left no choice but to vote against this measure, and I stand by my vote both on principle and practicality. An LDC, a quasi-public corporation that […]
BY ERIN MAHER Andrew Arcangel, 23, of New City, Rockland County has been named an 30Under30CEO 2012 Rookie of the Year. Arcangel is founder and CEO of true athelite, a basketball sportswear brand. “It’s an amazing honor,” says Arcangel of being named an 30Under30CEO Rookie of the year, a recognition bestowed annually to the top […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Stony Point – County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not-for-profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant […]
BY KATHY KAHN Special to The Rockland Times Seeing is believing, but there was little tangible to see in the regional presentation on the state’s new budget presented in Orangetown last Friday. Local officials, along with Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D) joined Empire State Development president Ken Adams as he presented a Power Point wrap-up of […]
The Rockland County Times has confirmed that Columbia University President Lee Bollinger has still not replied to a widely publicized letter from Rockland County PBA President Jim Kelly which asks him to reconsider the college’s decision to hire Brink’s terrorist Kathy Boudin. Many persons in the Rockland community have expressed outrage at the college’s choice […]