BY HARRY WAITZMAN My fingers tingle, my mouth smokes. Snow drifts surround Congers Lake. Hungry muskrats lick their paws and sniff. Two fishermen cut holes in the ice, light fires and camp on white grass. Mown by the sun, blades of slick grass melt. Mud puddles on the short, rivelets run. After one thunderstorm, another […]
VANDERBILT HOUSE in West Nyack, built circa1730, will be preserved through joint town, BOCES & Cooperative Extension agreement. Gristmill millstone, right foreground, used to operate adjacent mill, now covers abandoned water well. BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES (See Editor’s Note at Concluson) The Clarkstown Town Board voted unanimously Tuesday evening to sponsor […]
Perps allegedly turned food stamps into money stamps BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe announced on Tuesday that 26 defendants were being charged with defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) out of tens of thousands of dollars in food stamp benefits. “It appears that every time we look […]
Dylan, I am glad to see you doing well in battle, the Stony Point Battlefield! We need real men such as yourself, with commonsense, in positions of leadership, meaning handling our tax dollars properly. This is currently not being done in Stony Point or much of Rockland County. I believe you have a secret weapon […]
Lead Benghazi investigator for the State Department Thomas Pickering may have accidentally let the truth out in hearings last week. When asked if there was any possible involvement in the attack on the US outpost by Egyptian groups, specifically the Muslim Brotherhood, Pickering said, ““Our report indicates that one Egyptian organization which is named in […]
Dennis Malone’s appeal of last week’s Supreme Court decision regarding the validity of Clarkstown Highways Superintendent opponent Wayne Ballard’s Working Families Party absentee ballots has been dismissed by the Court of Appeals. The court said Malone did not follow proper procedure and lacked evidence for claims. The decision ensures Ballard will be on the Working […]