Cardiac care at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center is in the top 10 percent in the nation as measured by lowest risk-adjusted complications, according to a new report from Healthgrades, the leading online resource that helps consumers search, compare and connect with physicians and hospitals. The report, American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2014: Healthgrades Report to […]
Common Core and rule change in the middle of the game Part 4 of a 4 Part Series BY CHERYL SLAVIN Imagine yourself deeply engrossed in the longest game of Monopoly in your life, busily buying and selling properties with all the élan of the most distinguished real estate tycoons when suddenly at your door […]
At the January 14 Stony Point Town Board meeting, the board hired Robert Bertrand as a new police officer, the first of at least two and possibly three new hires. Bertrand is the son of a current town officer. Two officers who had been on disability were retired from the force in 2013, and the […]
They’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take bloggers anymore! County GOP Chairman Vincent Reda, Legislator/Clarkstown Highway Dept. Assistant Frank Sparaco, Clarkstown Highways Superintendent Wayne Ballard and a local businessman are all suing “Mad Blogger” Michael Hull and former GOP candidate and Rockland Times columnist turned political blogger Anthony Mele, claiming the pair […]
West Nyack accident shuts highway; firefighters cut open car to make rescue BY BILL DEMAREST WEST NYACK – A driver was briefly trapped in the wreckage of a two-car crash on the New York State Thruway that shut the southbound side of the highway near the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack Wednesday afternoon. Three […]
The Palisades Farmers Market, Rockland’s first indoor winter farmers’ market, opened its doors for its sixth year on Saturday, January 18. Although it was a very unexpected snowy day, it didn’t dissuade the farmers and vendors from bringing their produce and prepared foods to the community. Housed in a schoolhouse built in 1870, every Saturday, […]