STORY BY JANIE ROSMAN While New York City’s streets buzzed with pre-holiday excitement, another energy filled the room where a prominent speaker discussed a $3.9 billion project less than an hour away. To say Thruway Authority Project Director Peter Sanderson’s presentation was riveting would be an understatement. “Our members were so engaged,” PMI New York City […]
To the Editor, Lately, there has been a lot of comments posted online and discussed in this nation’s Congress about whether most people who receive government disability assistance are able to “work,” or are faking and committing fraud. I’d like to share some of my views on the subject. I’d like to remind something to a lot of […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA After Clint Eastwood’s latest contributions to war cinema in 2006, “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima,” both companion-piece World War II films, he returns to the genre with “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper. The film follows the assignments of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Cooper), considered the deadliest sniper in […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Soccer star Jean-Charles takes her talents to Oklahoma Clarkstown South Alumna carved path At Monroe College Getting from here to there in three easy steps. By way of Monroe College in New Rochelle, New York — while not overlooking an earlier stint in an Olympic Development Program — former four-year […]
Suffern Police Chief Clarke Osborne has spoken out about filmmaker Michael Moore’s recent comments referring to military snipers as “cowards:” Osborne said, “The last few days have been a little hectic and busy in my own little world and after catching up on some news today I see that filmmaker Michael Moore decided to call […]
To the Editor, Thank you for running the picture and caption of Santa Claus visiting the Thiells United Methodist Church Thrift Shop. It caught the attention of many and some folks from Montvale, New Jersey came to the Thrift Shop this past Saturday to make some purchases told us they read about it in the Rockland County Times. We […]