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 […]
BY HARRY WAITZMAN The oaks remaining along Old Lake Road parade in ragged formation. The few pines are solid citizens, straight and unbending. There are holes in all ranks where lightning struck and insects drilled. Nearby, the shade of trees is disrupted by the widening of Main. A new sidewalk runs from nowhere to nowhere, […]
Congratulations to Stony Point resident Brian Reardon of Boy Scouts of America Troop #61 on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout, a distinction earned by only 4 percent of all Boy Scouts nationwide. County Executive Day presented Brian with an Award of Excellence on behalf of the county during a weekend Court of Honor ceremony […]