Statement from Assembly candidate Dan Castricone: The announcement by Novartis that it will be closing its Rockland County plant in Suffern is yet another wakeup call to New York. We are now losing nearly 300 good paying New York jobs. And while the company partially attributes the decision to the loss of exclusivity of the drug […]
Rev. David Wentroble, pastoral care director for Nyack Hospital, perished Tuesday evening, one month after he was severely burned by a gas station pump explosion in Danbury, Conn. near his home. Wentroble had been placed in a medically-induced coma at Bridgeport Hospital (Conn.) following the Dec. 20 tragedy, which occurred at “Wheels Citgo” in Danbury. The […]
While many of our readers will not care, some will be interested to learn that Justin Bieber was arrested in Florida last night for DUI and drag racing. He was released on $2,500 bond. The arrest is the latest in an increasingly bizarre string of drug-fueled misbehavior. At first his rowdy antics of the past year […]
Ignoring the current trend in Albany of leaving vacated Assembly seats open until this year’s November election, Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe has urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to direct a special election be held for State Assembly District 98 to fill the seat formerly held by Annie Rabbitt, who stepped down in early […]
This week Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme again managed to attract widespread criticism, this time for his handling of Tuesday’s winter storm. Though he now denies it, it was widely reported in Rockland political circles and in local media venues that at 2 p.m. on Tuesday Mayor Delhomme ordered his DPW plow operators to go […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column     Turn pro, go west young man; GG bouts on tap Soccer has taken Tom McNamara throughout the country, from his days as a teenager playing travel soccer and then at Brown University where he helped lead the Bears to the Ivy League Championship. Now, the 22-year-old […]