Police: Man tried to push his way into Suffern home BY BILL DEMAREST SUFFERN – A passenger on a NJ Transit train to Suffern was arrested Monday night after he got off the train, sat on the tracks, led police on a chase and tried to push his way into a nearby home, according to […]
By Bill Demarest ORANGEBURG – After more than two days of intense efforts by hundreds of volunteers, fire officials said Saturday afternoon that the sprawling brush fire that tore through the woods of Clausland Mountain is just about over. Firefighters from Orangeburg and neighboring volunteer fire departments are checking the woods for a few remaining […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN Just prior to its regular session last Wednesday, the Rockland County Legislature held a brief but moving ceremony to honor Rockland resident and army veteran Alan Moskin for his service during World War II. During the ceremony Moskin, whose unit helped liberate the Gunskirchen death camp in Austria, met Legislator Aron Weider’s […]
BY MERRILL MATTHEWS If regulators seem confused about how to implement a health care program as vast and sweeping as ObamaCare, maybe, just maybe, it’s because they know how badly they’ve bungled smaller and simpler health care reform efforts — especially a particular drug discount program. Prior to 1990, many drug manufacturers voluntarily discounted their […]
PRESS RELEASE County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef this week proclaimed that Rockland County residents have saved more than two million dollars by participating in the ProAct Prescription Discount Card Program, which the county implemented in 2011. ProAct is designed to provide individuals with little or no prescription coverage, access to affordable medications. To date, residents […]
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