New Member of START-UP NY Syncsort, New York’s Venerable Startup Cuts the Ribbon for New Pearl River Office

New Member of START-UP NY Syncsort, New York’s Venerable Startup Cuts the Ribbon for New Pearl River Office

  On Dec. 6, Syncsort, one of the newest members of the START-UP NY program, will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new office in Pearl River, NY. Though generally considered a massive failure, the START-UP NY program will still bring 144 new jobs to the Rockland County area. To celebrate a rare instance of the program’s success, the governor, […]

Shades Rep Artistic Director Samuel Harps Writes Play About The Underground Railroad

Shades Rep Artistic Director Samuel Harps Writes Play About The Underground Railroad

BY GEORGE J. DACRE Samuel Harps is the writer and Joe Albert Lima the director of a new play “Underground,” about the Underground Railroad. Harps first public reading of the play will be presented Saturday, December 17, 1 p.m. at the Nyack Library, which is appropriate as the Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes used by slaves […]

School Bus Safety Laws Long Overdue

School Bus Safety Laws Long Overdue

BY DIANE DIMOND If children are our most precious resource, then why aren’t we doing more to protect them as they travel to and from school? For decades, there have been concerns about the lack of seat belts in school buses. Yet only six states have laws requiring them today. And five of those states […]

VOICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE MAJORITY: Helping Haiti In All Ways Possible

VOICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE MAJORITY: Helping Haiti In All Ways Possible

  By Legislator Aney Paul (D – Nanuet) Deputy Majority Leader Rockland County Legislature Recent hurricanes hit the already crippled nation of Haiti, which has been struggling to rebuild itself for years following the devastating 2010 earthquake there. As a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, I knew I could do more to help the people on […]

Orangetown OKs Bike Trail on Clausland Mtn.

Orangetown OKs Bike Trail on Clausland Mtn.

New Town Hall Discussion Wednesday BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Orangetown Town Board voted to support Rockland County Parks Commission’s plan to open an existing single-track dirt hiking trail on county land to non-motorized bikers Tuesday evening. The existing county trail crosses onto town land in two places, hence the County’s solicitation of […]