Chairman Alden H. Wolfe was recently honored by Chaverim of Rockland at their annual Member Appreciation Dinner. Chaverim, a volunteer, not-for-profit organization, is equipped to handle various non-medical emergencies including roadside assistance, neighborhood watch, disaster crisis management and provide assistance upon request, to local law enforcement agencies. In 2013, Chaverim volunteers responded to more than […]
The Jan and Niles Davies Learning Center at Helen Hayes Hospital, in conjunction with the Stony Point and Haverstraw Town Police Departments, will host a free Child Passenger Safety event on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 from 3-6 p.m. at the Jan and Niles Davies Learning Center located on the Helen Hayes campus in West Haverstraw. […]
Dear Commissioner Nagubandi, I appreciate the time you took to respond to my call for an impartial body to study the mounting tension we are experiencing in Rockland County; this situation requires our immediate and unified attention. Allow me to clarify in response to your comments: my proposal to examine the recent hate crimes was […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Advocates of the nationwide “ban the box” movement have approached the county with their policy to make people with criminal histories more employable. They contend that people with criminal histories that would not preclude employment should be fairly treated and that employed people, with steady incomes, are less likely […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES With Democratic Supervisor Andrew Stewart absent, the four-member Republican majority of the Orangetown Town Board had a fairly easy time of it earlier this month, disposing of a five-page agenda in quick order. The only debate the entire evening was a nearly one-hour discussion on a […]
Text of Astorino letter: Dear Madam/Sir, This letter is prompted by a grossly misleading television ad now being run on your stations by the Democratic State Committee on behalf of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding frivolous allegations in a lawsuit entitled The Westchester County Independence Party, et al. v. Robert P. Astorino, et al. […]