Recent Gene Discovery Inspires Record Breaking Attempt for Largest Simultaneous ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC) at Empire City Casino this Sunday

Recent Gene Discovery Inspires Record Breaking Attempt for Largest Simultaneous ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC) at Empire City Casino this Sunday

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, […]

Rockland County Wins Precedent-setting Civil Case Against Prostitution Ring

Rockland County has won a legal case county officials have heralded as “precedent-setting,” establishing the ability of municipalities to use civil penalties against illegal massage parlors and places of prostitution. Rockland County Attorney Thomas Humbach prevailed in a legal case against New City Spa, a business at 55-71 S. Main St., where workers have been […]

Momentum Starting to Build for Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail

Momentum Starting to Build for Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail

It’s been four years since the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail was announced, and there are still years ahead until the project is completed, but momentum is finally starting to build for this massive project. This is one of the most ambitious trail projects in the mid-Hudson valley, one that when completed, promises a nine-mile trail […]

Rockland Files Second Quarter Report with Comptroller

Day cites Legislature’s decision to delay Sain sale as cause of deficit PRESS RELEASE FROM COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE Rockland County has filed its second quarter report to the state Comptroller, which once again shows the strong progress the county is making just three years after earning the shameful designation of most fiscally stressed in the state. […]