BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland County Legislature convened for an organizational meeting on January 3, 2013, during which it re-elected Legislator Harriet Cornell as its chairwoman and selected other individuals for various positions within and connected to the legislature. Cornell, who represents District 10 in Rockland, was sworn in to continue the position she held […]
REPORT BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The intentions of the Journal News’ editorial board in publishing a highly controversial “interactive gun map” are further occluded by an inconvenient fact. According to Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato, in Rockland County a large number of the names and addresses on the map are not even correct. Piperato said, […]
Support also vowed for tighter restrictions on gun permit information BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The Journal News editorial board and publisher Janet Hasson were condemned today by law enforcement, a bipartisan group of legislators, County Clerk Paul Piperato and the five major political parties of Rockland County, for their publication of an interactive map exposing the […]
Rockland County Legislator Frank Sparaco will announce a resolution to condemn the decision by the Journal News to post the names and addresses of lawful pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester Counties. Legislators Jay Hood, Jr., Aron Wieder, Toney Earl and Christopher Carey will join Sparaco to condemn the action. Legislators Sparaco, Schoenberger, Hood, […]
As the ball dropped in Times Square and the world welcomed in the New Year, Mark and Ismini Svensson were already working towards their New Year’s resolution – a 50-state initiative. Under the banner “50 Acts of Giving Back,” the couple have established a goal of traveling and performing charitable services in every state in […]
Story of the 1964 segregation battle in Mississippi BY GEORGE J. DACRE The story of the college students who went to the deep South and risked and sometimes lost their lives trying to end segregation will be performed next month at Shades Repertory Theatre in Haverstraw. The play is written by William Tucker and will […]