The Rockland Boulders baseball team has featured craft beers with Boulders-inspired recipes at home games in Pomona the past three seasons, including ones brewed by “Captain Lawrence.” It is not clear whether the man who loves to see his name everywhere, Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, is involved with the team’s decision to partner with Captain Lawrence, but […]
New York Assemblyman James Skoufis surprised the Rockland and Orange political community on Tuesday, announcing that he’s suspended his campaign for state Senate and instead decided to run for another term in the state Assembly. His only announced opponent for Assembly thus far is Republican Colin Schmitt, who as a 2012 candidate for the same […]
It’s been over two years since Provident Bank, Rockland’s former longtime community bank, transformed via a merger and acquisition into Sterling National Bank, but all the while the obsolete monicker “Provident Bank Park” has remained attached to the ballpark in Pomona. In timing that no doubt will be considered more than coincidental by a large portion of the public, the Rockland Boulders and ballpark administrators announced on April […]
NY STATE OF POLITICS Republican Sen. Bill Larkin announced he would run for re-election to the seat he has held since 1990 in what could be a crucial battleground district for control of the chamber. “Of all the professions I’ve had, being a public servant has had a very special meaning for me over the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Thank goodness there have been no headline-grabbing mass shootings in America recently. I was thinking about that this week after reading about the 17th anniversary of the Columbine massacre. On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot dead 12 of their fellow students and one teacher and injured many others […]
Ramapo police officers responded to Kathryn Gorman Park in Montebello recently in response to a reported fox caught in an illegal hunting trap. With the assistance of DEC officer Galvin, Ramapo officers were able to secure the fox and turned over the injured animal to Marilyn Leybra who is involved in local wildlife rehabilitation. RPD issued […]