Hospital contends low score does not reflect its true performance BY BILL DEMAREST NYACK – Nyack Hospital got a bit of bloody nose last week with a Cosumer Reports story and ratings on hospitals, which hit Nyack with a low score. But hospital officials contend the rating for Nyack Hospital does not reflect its true […]
The New York State Division of Consumer Protection and the NYS Tax Department has alerted consumers to phone and email scams from individuals claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or State Tax Department. Scammers posing as tax officials are threatening New Yorkers with fines, arrest, and other penalties if they don’t immediately […]
To the Editor, Yes, as Ramapo town attorney Michael Klein tells us in this week’s Journal News, the stadium was a joint project between Ramapo and the Ramapo Local Development Corporation (LDC). What he does not tell you is that it was an illegal joint project. The LDC was created in accordance with New York […]
BY BARRY WARNER At Nyack Middle School, grade seven students participated in a ‘Slicing Prisms and Pyramids’ curriculum segment, in which they developed strategies to carve prisms out of a block of play dough with a wire clip cutter. The student measured the surface area and volume for 3-dimensional shapes, such as a triangle and […]
(Letter sent from RBA President Al Samuels to all RBA members) Regards, Saturday looked like it was going to be a pretty grey day until we got word that New York had its fourth consecutive on-time budget. And, perhaps more importantly, an issue of major concern to Rockland (and our region) had been successfully resolved. […]
As part of its plan to develop new processes to get the power back on more quickly from storm-related electric outages, on Monday O&R launched a pilot program designed to streamline O&R’s field damage assessment procedures, making them faster, more efficient and more accurate. Under this pilot program, O&R would transmit field damage reports in […]