By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Crafting my Proposed Budget for 2015 has been a challenge, to say the least. The grueling process has been filled with hours of number-crunching, spirited debate and difficult decisions. As I’ve said repeatedly, it’s my job to make the tough choices that affect the 320,000 residents of Rockland County. […]
By George J. Dacre “Camelot,” “West Side Story,” “Godspell,” “Backwards In High Heels,the Ginger Rogers Story and “Showboat” all lined up for 2015 at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford. “South Pacific” running now and then their Christmas show, followed by “South Pacific” again in January 2015. Tickets at broadwaytheatre.com or 914-592-2222. ArtsRock celebrating the music of Paul Simon,Friday […]
At the Town of Haverstraw Board Meeting last week, several members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Charles G. Muller Chapter 120 of Rockland County presented supervisor and town board with a plaque and flag proclaiming the Town of Haverstraw a Purple Heart Town. Supervisor Howard Phillips and the Town Board also presented […]
To the Editor, The biggest issue facing Rocklanders is property taxes. That is why I find it appalling that our Democratic legislators, who after presiding over a Rockland County budget deficit of $125 million and raising property taxes respectively 30 percent in 2012, 18 percent in 2013 and 9.9 percent in 2014 have so much […]
Pomona, NY resident Edward Hall, MD, Chief Psychiatrist in the Department of Behavioral Health, is one of this year’s seven honorees of Bergen Regional Medical Center’s 16th annual Employee Service Awards. He was nominated in the Outstanding Physician category for his service to the Bergen Regional patients and community. Award winners were nominated by their […]
Skylands Stadium in August, NJ this week announced that professional baseball will officially return to the stadium this Spring 2015. The still-to-be-named team will join the Can-Am Association of Professional Baseball, the league in which the Rockland Boulders play. In its inaugural season, the new Skylands team will play 55 home games starting mid-May through […]