FROM CLIFFVIEW PILOT A Rockland County special education teacher was under the influence of heroin when she crashed her station wagon into a utility pole in Mahwah, took off and then drove past the investigating officers in the severely damaged vehicle, Police Chief James Batelli said this afternoon. Jill Blau, 42, of Mahwah was released […]
What’s going on at Hi Tor Animal Care Center? Nobody really knows! The brand new leaders of the board are out after a month and Sharon Needleman has assumed temporary leadership. If the chaos continues the shelter can count on a government takeover of some kind, the Rockland County Times predicts. Needleman put a positive […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day This Independence Day, Americans will celebrate the birth of the United States of America. We are blessed to live in a nation like no other, a nation of liberty and freedom. One of the most remarkable traits of our great country is the opportunity that Americans have to live […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- Spring Valley Trustee Vilair Fonvil successfully filed an emergency order Thursday to stop the village of Spring Valley from paying $114,280 to the Martin Luther King Jr. center in an alleged bad day camp deal set to rip off taxpayers. The emergency stop payment order was issued to Spring Valley […]
STORY AND PHOTO BY JANIE ROSMAN Sixteen months after it recommended rapid transit when the new bridge opens in 2018, the transit task force rolled out Phase 1 — a $91 million Suffern-Tarrytown-White Plains line — last week. At his first such public meeting after the State Senate approved him mid-June, Thruway Authority Executive Director, […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Kindergarteners in the East Ramapo Early Childhood Center will have a surprise next fall from the Tales for Tots Literacy Program. “The single most important activity for building knowledge for their eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children,” according to Becoming a Nation of Readers,a 1985 report by the Commission […]