Kristen Wicks is First Woman to be Named a Fire Company President in North Rockland

Kristen Wicks is First Woman to be Named a Fire Company President in North Rockland

Kristen Wicks has been named president of Wayne Hose Company in Stony Point. She’s the first female president of a fire company in north Rockland, officials said. Other house officers named include, Tom Cass Jr. as vice president; Ryan Flood, recording secretary; Christopher Huslinger Jr., corresponding secretary, Peter Hubert Sr., financial secretary; Kevin Huslinger II, […]

County legislature re-organizes for 2014

County legislature re-organizes for 2014

Cornell leaves chair position after nine years, Kantrowitz sworn in as replacement legislator for Ed Day BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – The Rockland County Legislature met in its chambers on January 6 to hold its annual reorganizational meeting, where it appointed new officers to its posts and took care of other annual housekeeping matters. […]

Marc My Words!

Marc My Words!

Marc Maturo’s official sports column RCC ready to induct another Hall of Fame class Isidro “Papo” Cancel, who serves as a Town of Haverstraw councilman, and Suffern chief of police Clarke Osborn will receive service awards and join four former athletes for induction into the Rockland Community College Sports Hall of Fame on January 18. […]

Orangetown man commits suicide in County Jail

Orangetown man commits suicide in County Jail

New City – In a rare case for Rockland corrections, Orangetown resident Francis Donnelly hanged himself in his jail cell on Sunday afternoon. Sheriff Louis Falco said Donnelly, who was arrested in September on robbery and weapons charges, had been processed in the standard fashion at the jail, going through screening for mental illness and […]

MANY KITTENS UP FOR ADOPTION

MANY KITTENS UP FOR ADOPTION

This was a very busy summer for the cats of Rockland County, with litter after litter coming into Hi Tor Animal Care Center. Normally there are no kittens available during winter months, but this year there are lots of kittens available for adoption. Most of these little love bugs were raised by wonderful foster-care givers. […]

New Board, Old Business: Stony Point Makes Few Changes at Reorganization Meeting

BY CHERYL SLAVIN The newly constituted Stony Point Town Board, with recently elected councilmen Tom Basile and Jim Monaghan attending for the first time, held its 2014 reorganization on a frigid night last Tuesday. The new members were about the only thing that changed; most of the appointments and designations remain the same as last […]