DISTRICT ATTORNEY ZUGIBE ISSUES DANGEROUS DRUG THREAT ALERT: POTENT HEROIN Beatnicks, such as former Rockland Psychiatric resident Allen Ginsberg, called heroin “the horse” in the 1950s, perhaps accidentally popularizing the often lethal and life-nullifying narcotic. After falling out of favor for decades the worst drug of them all has made a comeback in recent years, […]
DA’S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Thursday announced the arrests of eight individuals on charges of operating a large-scale gambling and loan sharking enterprise in Rockland and Westchester counties, New York City, Long Island, Pennsylvania and Florida. The arrests culminate a ten-month undercover investigation into illegal loan sharking activity, as […]
OVER $1 MILLION IN FEDERAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 2015 FUNDING COUNTY PRESS RELEASE County Executive Ed Day and Office of Community Development Director S. Ram Nagubandi on Monday announced that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded more than $1 million in federal funding through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) […]
BY DIANE DIMOND For those of us who have never lost a child to a violent crime, we cannot possibly know a grieving parent’s pain. But we know that out of pain can come a convoluted way of thinking. It isn’t easy to question the motives of a heartbroken parent who decides they hold the […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN When Lizanne Fiorentino took the helm of the Hi Tor Animal Care Center Board of Directors in January 2014, she adamantly proclaimed that it was her intent, and that of the new board, to usher in an era of transparency, fiscal responsibility and improved relations with volunteers and staff. Now a year and […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Bringing unwell and terminally children close to fulfilling a desire is the aim of Make-A-Wish® Hudson Valley. Last Saturday real estate agencies in four counties helped the cause. Wright Brothers Real Estate in Nyack and Area Pro Realty of Rockland in Stony Point were two of 11 businesses participating in the three-hour garage […]