On Thursday evening July 25, the “Neighbors of Hillcrest,” “Save Our Schools Coalition” and “Wake UP Rockland” will be conducting a protest and walk from the Hillcrest shopping center to a private school at 8 Eckerson Lane. The purpose of this protest is to oppose the planned construction of a private/religious school for 250 students […]
Former gadfly turned political candidate Barry Berman of Garnerville has been charged by Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe with allegedly shaking down an opponent for $3,000. The DA said Berman told his opponent that he’d drop out of the race for superintendent of the Haverstraw Highway Department for the aforementioned sum. Lohud reported […]
FROM ROCKLAND COUNTY GOVERNMENT Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef and County Legislature Chairwoman Harriet Cornell this week announced the names of seven members of the newly formed “Rockland County Health Facilities Corporation,” a Local Development Corporation (LDC) formed by Rockland County for the purpose of lessening the fiscal burdens of government with respect to the operation of the County’s […]
Department of Justice proposes new standards for accessing reporters’ records The Department of Justice under Obama recently established a new set of rules governing subpoenas on reporters’ phone records in an apparent response to their controversial gathering of dozens of Associated Press reporters’ phone records. According to a response to a Freedom of Information Act […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – State Senator David Carlucci (D – Ossining, Rockland) publically announced his support for Suffern Mayor Dagan LaCorte’s bid for Rockland County executive during a press conference at the Rockland County Courthouse at noon on Monday, July 22. “When we sent David Carlucci to Albany in 2010, the people of […]
SPRING VALLEY MAN SENTENCED TO STATE PRISON IN KNIFEPOINT ROBBERY FROM THE DA’S OFFICE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe today announced that 30-year-old Andrew Baxter of 37 Memorial Park Drive, Spring Valley, New York has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison and five years post‐release supervision after being convicted following a jury trial […]