Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Combat Human Trafficking

PRESS RELEASE FROM SEAN MALONEY The Senate unanimously passed Representative Sean Patrick Maloney’s (NY-18) bipartisan Human Trafficking Prevention Act. Initially passed with bipartisan support by the House in 2013 and then again in January of this year, this legislation will help train Foreign Service Officers working overseas at US Embassies to stem the demand for […]

Unsung Hero: Daniel Caprara

Unsung Hero: Daniel Caprara

BY BARRY WARNER Daniel Caprara is a super-volunteer who has no ‘off switch’ and sticks to his commitments to make things happen. Sonia Cairo, executive director of Keep Rockland Beautiful (KRB), indicated that Daniel spotted the organization’s volunteers planting trees and shrubs along Pascack Brook in Spring Valley several years ago. In 2013, he then […]

What’s Happening

By George J. Dacre “West Side Story” is now on main stage at the Westchester Broadway Theatre, in Elmsford. It will consist of a dinner and show. Call 914-592-2222 or broadwaytheatre.com for dates and times. Rated Four Out Of Four Stars by the Rockland County Times. Big Apple Comedy Club is coming to the Newton […]

Pair arrested for burglary in Wesley Hills

This Wednesday, April 22, Darwin L. Cartagena-Regaldo and Jose. G Flores-Cordova of Spring Valley were arrested this week and charged with burglary in the third degree. Ramapo Police responded to a call of two suspicious males at an unoccupied house located at 15 McNamara Rd. in the Village of Wesley Hills. Upon arrival, police found […]

Parents sue all-boys’ school over sexual abuse

In a legal first, the parents of a former student at Yeshiva University’s Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn have filed a suit against the school for deceiving them into believing the school was a safe place for their son in spite of rampant sexual abuse. Israel and Chaya Gutman argued in their suit that […]