Ignoring the current trend in Albany of leaving vacated Assembly seats open until this year’s November election, Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe has urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to direct a special election be held for State Assembly District 98 to fill the seat formerly held by Annie Rabbitt, who stepped down in early […]
This week Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme again managed to attract widespread criticism, this time for his handling of Tuesday’s winter storm. Though he now denies it, it was widely reported in Rockland political circles and in local media venues that at 2 p.m. on Tuesday Mayor Delhomme ordered his DPW plow operators to go […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column     Turn pro, go west young man; GG bouts on tap Soccer has taken Tom McNamara throughout the country, from his days as a teenager playing travel soccer and then at Brown University where he helped lead the Bears to the Ivy League Championship. Now, the 22-year-old […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA In a victory for critics of the controversial East Ramapo Central School District, the state Supreme Court ruled on December 30 that the District’s prior placement of special needs children in private religious schools was illegal and had to be discontinued. In his ruling, Justice Michael Melkonian concluded the school district was […]
BY RICK NELSON The South Korean government just confirmed what the world hoped was a baseless rumor. North Korea has indeed restarted its Yongbyon plutonium reactor and is now actively generating nuclear energy from the facility. Refined plutonium generated by such a reactor can be used in the development of long-range nuclear weapons — a […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The Reverend Bernie Khaw, who started playing guitar at an early age in Burma, is building up a following and increasing the membership in his church on Rosman Road in Thiells and is inviting volunteer singers and guitarists and other musicians to join his Praise Band. Reverend Bernie says there is […]