COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Join Rockland Conservation & Service Corps, their friends and supporters as they celebrate the accomplishments of the 2016 Conservation Corps from 1-4 p.m. on Thursday, August 11 at the County of Rockland Legislative Chambers, 11 New Hempstead Road, New City. “These hard-working young people have made a lasting contribution to their community,” […]
A Rockland-based pharmacist faces up to 10 years in federal prison for robbing government health programs of $5.3 million. Andrew Barrett, 57, of New City, former owner of Clarkstown Pharmacy and pharmacies in the Bronx and Queens, pleaded guilty to charges involving the theft of $2.7 million from Medicare and Medicaid for prescription medication he […]
BY JERRY DONNELLAN Director, Veterans Service Agency of Rockland County I arrived in Vietnam at the ripe old age of 22. I say that because the average age in my platoon was 19. Think about the 19-year olds you know. It’s like last year’s high school football team. Now armed to the teeth with weapons they […]
By Vincent Abbatecola In 2002, director Doug Liman brought author Robert Ludlum’s amnesiac, black-ops agent, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), to the big screen with “The Bourne Identity.” The events of that film hinted at something more that would follow, and we were given “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004) and “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007), both of which […]
The New City Rotary will host its third annual Wine & Food Festival on Saturday, September 10 from 4 – 7 p.m. benefiting the hungry and other charitable causes in Rockland County and internationally. The event will take place at Rockland Country Day School, 34 Kings Highway in Congers, and will feature live music and […]
About two short years after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge popped up on Facebook pages all over the world, ALS IBC Co-Founder and Yonkers resident Pat Quinn is hoping to recreate that same magic after researchers recently discovered a gene directly linked to ALS that may one day help lead to a cure. On Sunday, […]