LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE The Rockland County Legislature has voted 9-8 to adopt an amended 2016 County Budget that sets aside funding for deficit reduction and restores key jobs, among other important changes. “This has been the most challenging budget process I’ve experienced in my time as a County Legislator,” said Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe […]
River Vale, NJ — Edgewood Country Club has unveiled new plans to renovate the 60-year-old club to improve and beautify the facilities, while delivering brand new amenities and services to create a brand new club experience for existing and new members. Bruce Schonbraun and Eric Witmondt, representing the club’s owners, the Schonbraun and Witmondt families […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN During his swearing-in ceremony Monday night the newest member of John Paulding Engine Company #16, Sparkill-Palisades Fire District was beaming with joy and excitement. Brian Domitrovits, dressed in his firefighter’s jacket, fire hat and cool blue-and-black sneaker couldn’t wait to ride in the fire truck, blast the horn and sound the siren. […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Accused Craigslist killer, 19-year-old Dylan Lentini is to be formally charged by Judge William A. Kelly in Rockland Court on Thursday, Dec 10. after he was indicted on Friday, Dec. 4 by a grand jury for murder in the second, intent, class A felony. Rockland Public Defender James Licata will represent Lentini […]
Ramapo’s 104 police officers were paid an average of $173,361 last year, making them the highest-paid town police in New York, according to the Empire Center’s 2015 “What They Make” report. The report uses pay data reported to the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015. […]
BY CHRISTIAN HALSTEAD MAHWAH- The town council of Mahway, NJ unanimously decided at a board meeting December 3 to attempt to regulate pipelines passing through its township. This decision was spurred by the Pilgrim Pipeline’s seemingly imminent construction. The Pilgrim Pipeline, a proposed set of two oil pipelines to run from Albany to the Bayway […]