Crime Report 6/2/16

Crime Report 6/2/16

Clarkstown: WANTED Yuliya Kotukh 30 years old Female White 5’8” Brown Hair Blue Eyes Wanted for: Larceny and Possession of Stolen Property Last known address was in New City Marie Gazemar 45 years old Female Black 5’4” Black Hair Brown Eyes Wanted for: Forgery, Larceny and Criminal Possession of Stolen Property Last known address was […]

RESPONSE TO LAST WEEK’S OMBUDSMAN ALERT: SIMPLE IDEAS TO CUT BACK ON THE MENACE OF WAYWARD SHOPPING CARTS

To the Editor, Loose shopping carts in parting lots can damage cars, especially on a windy day. Super markets should have television cameras installed to scan parking lots for security and to quickly locate loose shopping carts. Also, supermarkets should have convenient locations within parking lots for the save return of shopping carts. Sincerely, Orrin […]

Kindness is contagious for district-based Link Elementary students

Kindness is contagious for district-based Link Elementary students

Rockland BOCES students participating in the District-Based Therapeutic Support program at Clarkstown’s Link Elementary School shared a message of kindness during a special assembly on May 26. Link students are encouraged to become better global citizens by taking actions that improve the school community and their families. This year, the BOCES fourth and fifth graders […]

Timelines 6/2/16

Local Student to Train for Olympics Maria Garcia, a senior at North Rockland High School, decided to shift her dream from studying nursing at Dominican College to training for the Olympics in racewalking. Garcia, 17, accepted an academic scholarship for the fall and planned to solely focus on becoming a nurse. She was preparing to […]

County Executive’s Corner: “We will protect our children”

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Rockland County fire inspectors have already started inspecting 49 private schools that either failed to comply with regulations or were given questionable grades. It’s not something we wanted to do. But when the schools failed to follow the law and the municipalities in which they are located turned a […]

OMBUDSMAN’S ALERT: Windows 10, Microsoft’s Major Mismatch

OMBUDSMAN’S ALERT: Windows 10, Microsoft’s Major Mismatch

Many PC users were doing just fine until they were “forced” to “upgrade” to windows 10 by Microsoft. Evidence of this fact may be found in the high volume of complaints received by many “geeks” interviewed by this writer in recent weeks. According to all of these geeks, at the heart of this problem is […]