LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Legislator Harriet D. Cornell (D-West Nyack) this week sent a letter to the Secretary of the New York State Public Service Commission asking the agency to direct Suez New York to formally abandon the Haverstraw Water Supply Project. A decision may be rendered when the PSC meets on Thursday, Dec. […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Charities know folks are in a giving frame of mind as the holidays draw near. Rip-off artists also realize that during this season folks are often just too busy to notice a scam when it’s right under their noses. Hey, thieves need holiday spending money, too, and aren’t fussy about how they […]
PRESS RELEASE – The Rockland County Legislature voted tonight to override all 22 of County Executive Ed Day’s line-item vetoes. Legislators voted 13-3 to override the vetoes of 13 full-time-equivalent security positions. Legislators also voted 12-4 to override the vetoes of six county Finance Department positions. With the overrides, the Legislature’s amended version of the 2016 […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE Rockland County Executive Ed Day today used the line item veto provision of Rockland County’s Home Rule Charter to strike 22 of 37 amendments made by the Rockland County Legislature to the Administration’s 2016 Executive Budget. The vetoes include Legislative amendments that: Restore 13 Department of General Services security […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Dylan Lentini, 19, pled not guilty to four counts of murder in the second and three counts of robbery in the first this morning at the Rockland County Courthouse. Lentini stood next to his public defenders, Kenneth Murphy and Walter Sakowski, wearing an orange jump suit with a green jacket. Lentini claims that […]
STONY POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT Stony Point Police and Haverstraw Police responded to a residence on Tomkins Avenue on Saturday, December 5, at approximately 10:30 p.m. regarding Haverstraw Town Police’s investigation of a stolen vehicle. Two male subjects in the home were seen carrying large bags of what appeared to be marihuana, according to responding officers. […]