BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Workers with Brega Transportaation Corporation announced legal proceedings against their employer this week at the Rockland County Legislature, petitioning the lawmaking body to assist them in securing contractually-promised healthcare from their employer. Representatives of the United Transportaation Union announced to the legislature on Tuesday that they believe Brega had […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – County Finance Commissioner Stephen DeGroat presented encouraging news to the legislature last Tuesday, March 11, relating that the credit outlook and sale of the county’s $96 million in deficit financing bonds looked promising enough to set the county on a more even fiscal footing. According to DeGroat, county finances […]
BY JAMES LEGGATE A local man is about to have a TV dream become reality. Harrison Bader, 22, spent several months filming reality show “House of Food” in Los Angeles, to premier Monday, March 31 at 10 p.m. The show features Bader and seven other up-and-coming chefs living together in a house like “The Real […]
Community party planned for later in the year BY BILL DEMAREST VALLEY COTTAGE – One-hundred years ago, 17 Valley Cottage residents got together and decided the community needed protection from the dangers of fire – forming the Valley Cottage Fire Department and opening a firehouse on Lake Road. On Monday night, the volunteers who today […]
DEC Unveils Proposal to Remediate Contaminated Site in Hillburn LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe recently presented comments at a public meeting held by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) regarding its proposal to remediate highly toxic paint sludge dumped in Hillburn more than 30 years ago by the Ford […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA David Fried, who served as a village justice for Spring Valley before running as the Democratic candidate for county executive in 2013, has been keeping busy with his law practice since the election. This week he announced he has also made an agreement with a prominent Manhattan law firm. Koehler & Isaacs […]
