BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL Clarkstown had its annual reorganization meeting last Thursday, January 3. This is the meeting where elected government officials are sworn into office and the town supervisor offers a state of the town address. Town Justice Rolf M. Thorsen was sworn into office by Family Court Jude William Warren. Thorsen was accompanied […]
The College Sports Notebook is compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The notebook will be published every Thursday. Please send items of interest to marcmaturo@aol.com. Pucci “iced” by concussion, plans return This might have been the winter of discontent for […]
DA’s Office confirms family members will likely be charged with labor trafficking in addition to abuse A Ramapo family whose matriarch recently was convicted of labor trafficking charges is accused of more of the same. Ramapo police have charged Vikas Jagota, 36, of 26 Butternet Dr. in New City, with forcing a 32-year-old female victim’s […]
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) has made it so that for the first time since 1996, the eighth time in baseball hall of fame history, not a single player received the percentage necessary to be inducted to the hall of fame. Created in 1936, the standards for induction have remained very high. Major […]
From Capital Tonight NY Rochester-area Assemblyman Joe Morelle has been tapped by Speaker Sheldon Silver to serve as majority leader – the number two position in the body. He replaces Ron Canestrari, an Albany-area Democrat who didn’t seek re-election in 2012. Morelle is considered business-friendly by Rockland Business Association President Al Samuels. Morelle has spoke […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Stony Point Town Board convened at 7 p.m. on January 8 to handle matters which included the swearing in of a councilman, new equipment purchases and leases, the granting of a gathering permit and waiving of a public hearing for the Polar Plunge, and continued public discussion on the Champlain-Hudson Power […]