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TIMELINES 4/11/13
County Legislature Expresses Support for Bohovesky Family During its April 3 meeting, the Rockland County Legislature passed a resolution expressing support for the family of Paula Bohovesky and urging the New York State Parole Board to deny parole to her killers. Bohovsky, 16 of Pearl River, was killed in 1980 by Richard LaBarbera and Robert […]
Letter to Editor: RABBI LEITER URGES AMERICANS TO MAINTAIN DECENCY STANDARDS OVER PUBLIC AIRWAVES
To the Editor, Help Rescue Our Children. (HROC) urges the public to take action to save millions of children from yet another threat to their innocence. Please comment on the FCC website, urging them NOT to neglect the needs of innocent children by dropping their current decency standards for the airwaves. Here’s some background, from […]
Heimlich Maneuvers to Help “Freedom Summer” — The Good Doctor comes through, will you help the cause too?
William Tucker, author of “Freedom Summer,” says Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 93-year-old inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, has donated $8,000 of the $35,000 needed to take the play about civil voting rights and murder in Mississippi during the 1960s on a nationwide tour. Tucker and the Shades Reportory Theatre in Haverstraw hope with the help of Kickstarter […]
ED DAY SAYS CORRUPT POLITICOS SHOULD LOSE STATE PENSIONS
PRESS RELEASE FROM LEGISLATOR AND COUNTY EXECUTIVE CANDIDATE ED DAY Rockland County Legislator Ed Day is sponsoring two resolutions that, if passed, would strip elected officials of pension and retirement benefits when an official is convicted of any felony offense against public administration while holding elective office. “Enough is enough. We need to take bold and aggressive action […]
VETS WANTS BENGHAZI PROBE
Two groups of retired military personnel on Monday called on the House to launch a Watergate-style investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. In separate letters to House members, the groups Special Operations Speaks and Operational Security (OpSec), urged support for the resolution introduced by Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, calling for […]