PRESS RELEASE The Rockland Water Coalition will receive the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Champion Award, the highest recognition presented to the public by the department. Members of the coalition will be honored in a ceremony to be held on April 24 in New York City. The group was nominated for the award by Riverkeeper and […]
You and your family are invited for a morning filled with real, hands-on discovery and real fun this Saturday, April 25 at Little Ivy Academy’s Welcome Summer Camp Open House. Your elementary and middle school children will have opportunities to create a video game, animate interactive story characters, build a spy gadget, film a digital special effect, launch a robot […]
County Executive Ed Day this spring continues his series of community conversations and town hall forums to gather input and listen to the concerns of local residents and discuss his priorities to move Rockland forward. “My first 15 months in office have shown that, while Rockland’s challenges are great, the power of this county to […]
To the Editor, Are all the NY courts like this? The “old boys club of money, power, and connections” seem to be alive and well in the Rockland County Family Court. Is this not a civil rights violation? How can a judge now say to Susan, the children’s mother, “You will terrify your girls; who have […]
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 […]
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 […]