Predictions in April 2013 of a visit by the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) to the Hudson Valley, NY turned out to be false, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking out the heavens again this evening, Thursday, January 9. A major solar flare set off Tuesday began radiating the Earth last night and is due to […]
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast announced the January 31 retirement of MTA Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut and the appointment of Joseph J. Giulietti as his successor. Permut has been a senior Metro-North executive since he helped found the railroad in 1983 and has served as president for more than […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Albany – Thanks to Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York might soon allow patients with severe illnesses the legal right to use medical marijuana to alleviate their symptoms, making it the 21st state to do so. Cuomo is expected to announce his plans to revive a medical marijuana law from 1980 during his […]
Kristen Wicks has been named president of Wayne Hose Company in Stony Point. She’s the first female president of a fire company in north Rockland, officials said. Other house officers named include, Tom Cass Jr. as vice president; Ryan Flood, recording secretary; Christopher Huslinger Jr., corresponding secretary, Peter Hubert Sr., financial secretary; Kevin Huslinger II, […]
Cornell leaves chair position after nine years, Kantrowitz sworn in as replacement legislator for Ed Day BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – The Rockland County Legislature met in its chambers on January 6 to hold its annual reorganizational meeting, where it appointed new officers to its posts and took care of other annual housekeeping matters. […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column RCC ready to induct another Hall of Fame class Isidro “Papo” Cancel, who serves as a Town of Haverstraw councilman, and Suffern chief of police Clarke Osborn will receive service awards and join four former athletes for induction into the Rockland Community College Sports Hall of Fame on January 18. […]