PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day has introduced a measure that will address flooding in the Squires Gate neighborhood of Suffern. The County Executive is asking the Legislature to approve a resolution to spend up to $250,000 for the Squires Gate/Lake Antrim flood mitigation project. “Residents of Squires Gate have lived at the mercy […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Not even the U.S. Supreme Court could decide what this nation should do to get a grip on its immigration problems. The high court recently deadlocked 4-4 on the issue of whether President Obama’s executive order on immigration, which would have protected millions of undocumented people from being deported, was constitutional. Minus […]
BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY Rockland County is being asked to pay millions for a water desalination plant that will never be built. The Public Service commission, which is supposed to be the watchdog for consumers, stood by and did nothing as Suez, our water company, spent $54 million on a plant that was […]
Drunk driving kills. Anastasia Karassik understands that better than most people. Her 13-year-old daughter, Larisa, was killed last year on Memorial Day weekend when a drunk driver ran a stop sign and struck the car her father, Bruce, was driving. According to lohud.com, that heart-breaking event spurred the Karassik family to spearhead efforts to try […]
Spring Valley PD report that pn Sunday, June 26, 2016 at approximately 11:55 p.m. officers responded to the area of 12 N. Myrtle Av for a report of a possible robbery. In that area patrol units discovered an unconscious male with apparent facial and head injuries. The unidentified subject was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital via […]
NEW CITY, N.Y. – At approximately 12:04 p.m. today (Thursday), rescuers from Rockland were dispatched to investigate a report of a tugboat taking on water in the Hudson River near the Tappan Zee Bridge construction site. Nyack volunteer firefighters responded first in a fire boat. Members of the Piermont dive team also responded as did […]