REPORT FROM NYSCOPBA Four safety and security officers were injured last week when a gang of patients attacked them inside one of the facility buildings. The incident occurred on Thursday, August 27, at approximately 5:30 p.m. A patient at the psychiatric facility was being unruly and combative and several officers were needed to get the […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day It’s crunch time. With less than a month before I unveil my proposed fiscal plan for 2016, the closed-door budget discussions continue daily between our Finance Department staff and department heads. Crafting a budget that keeps property tax rates low and maintains essential county services is shaping up to […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Countless children go through life not knowing the true identity of their fathers. Shame on their mothers. And shame on the U.S. court system that, more often than you realize, forces child support on men with no DNA connection. These false establishments of paternity, as they are called, happen in courts across […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – The Historical Society of Rockland County is presenting Rock n’ Roll Never Forgets with Dennis Elsas at the RCC Cultural Arts Center in Suffern on October 3 at 8 p.m. Tickets at 845-634-9629 or RocklandHistory.org. – Grammar school production (grades 3 to 8) by Broadway Theatre Workshops at St. Joe’s […]
Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack joined Tony Pallogudis, president of the Nanuet Chamber of Commerce and Capital One bank manager at the grand re-opening of the Capital One bank in Nanuet. Highway Superintendent Wayne Ballard was also in attendance.
Spring Valley man arrested for driving drunk with children in car A Spring Valley man was arrested on Sunday after a two car crash in Monsey revealed that not only was he driving drunk, but that he was doing so with his own children in the car. Jose Luis Escobar, 48, rear-ended another car on Main Street […]