Agreement reached to restore critical OPWDD funding

PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYMAN JAMES SKOUFIS Assemblyman James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) is optimistic over the announcement that a deal has been reached on legislation he sponsored to restore funding that was cut to the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) as part of the 2013-14 state budget (A.6692-C). “Since March, I have been advocating to […]

Cardinal Dolan Coming to North Rockland Sunday

Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of the NY Diocese, is set to visit St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville on  Sunday at 2 p.m., for a closing mass in celebration of their 50th anniversary jubilee. The church reported the information on their Facebook page this week.

Rockland Transit Corporation Sues Rockland County

  NEW CITY, New York (June 14, 2013) — Rockland Transit Corporation filed a lawsuit today in New York Supreme Court in Westchester County against the County of Rockland to challenge that county’s apparent contract award to Brega Transportation Corporation to operate and support the “Transport of Rockland” and “Tappan Zee Express” public bus systems. […]

The Buying and Selling of Babies

BY DIANE DIMOND It is not some science fiction movie plot. It is real. Human beings are being manufactured and sold — right here in America. Even more shocking is the fact that decades after the first commercial U.S. sperm bank was opened (1971), after the world’s first test tube baby was born (1978) and […]

Illegal Can-Shooting in Montebello

From Ramapo PD On Thursday, June 13 at approximately 9:04 p.m. the Ramapo Police received a report of a party discharging a rifle in the area of 218 Haverstraw Rd Montebello. Responding officers learned that one Stephen Luick, 35-year-old male from Suffern, had discharged several shots from a .22 caliber rifle on the property of […]

United Water Applies for Desal-Related Rate Hike

United Water has officially requested from the state permission to impose a $5 per month surcharge to pay for the first phase of the desalination project. See United Water’s press release:    WEST NYACK, NY, June 14, 2013 – United Water New York announced today that it filed a petition to the New York State Public Service […]

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