BY JANIE ROSMAN Like many youngsters, he was unsure what he wanted to do when he grew up. During summers he built residential foundations for his father, a construction company owner; in school he excelled at math and science. “So when it came time to decide what to study in college, my interest in construction […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – A draft law proposed by County Legislator Jay Hood could add additional county restrictions on top of pre-existing federal regulations which govern the use of unmanned aerial drones. The Legislature plans to gather input to craft a local law which would limit the use of camera drones to private […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY SUFFERN- Two fires tore through Berkeley Apartment Complex on Wayne Street Tuesday, March 10 leaving an estimated 25 people homeless. Over 60 firefighters from Suffern, Tallman, Monsey, Hillcrest and Spring Valley rushed to the first fire minutes before 7 p.m. to find a large basement fire raging thru the two-story building. Firefighters […]
BYÂ CHERYL SLAVIN At its regular meeting Tuesday night the Stony Point Town Board unanimously passed a resolution to amend the zoning code governing its protected waterfront (PW) zoning district. The changes come about after a months-long process, started last year, during which the town examined how to encourage further use of the marina areas and […]
This week the Stony Point Town Board adopted a resolution designating the Rockland County Times as its newspaper of record for the town’s yearlong sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary celebration. Editor and publisher Dylan Skriloff is on the planning committee and has offered to carry publicity about the festivities in the paper, including the publication of a […]
BY DIANE DIMOND OK, so let me get this straight. We need to add the conflict in the Middle East to the list of things our politicians cannot agree upon. Is that right? Our schismatic U.S. Congress — the body that makes the laws we are all bound to live by — can’t agree on […]