DINAPOLI USES RAMAPO INDICTMENTS TO LAUNCH NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST LDCs

Letter to The Journal News from NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Given the turn of events in the Town of Ramapo related to the questionable financing of a minor league baseball stadium, is there any doubt New York’s local development corporations need more oversight? Commonly known as LDCs, these entities are private, not-for-profit corporations often […]

Thiells Student Wins Solar Energy-Earth Day Contest

Thiells Student Wins Solar Energy-Earth Day Contest

Two middle school students, one from Thiells, are the top winners in the “Are You a Solar Superstar? Make a Difference One Ray at a Time” Earth Day contest, sponsored by the Briarcliff Manor-based Sunrise Solar Solutions LLC, the largest locally owned and operated solar company in the Hudson Valley. Cecilia Roe, a sixth grader […]

MAYOR OF MONTEBELLO WANTS RAMAPO PLANNING BOARD FROZEN

Letter from the Mayor of Montebello Lance Millman: All Planning and Zoning Board members have been appointed and approved by the Town Board, presumably upon St. Lawrence’s recommendations. Land-use board member have been active in all aspects of the town’s approvals, including one prior zoning board member, now a Town Board member, who has been […]

ACCLAIMED “STEM” SUMMER PROGRAM COMING TO CLARKSTOWN FOR ONE WEEK IN AUGUST

Camp Invention, the nationally renowned summer enrichment day camp program, supported by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and a product of the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), is coming to Clarkstown Community Learning Center the week of August 8, 2016. For students entering grades one through six, Camp Invention is a […]

A MINUTE WITH CHIEF OBSORN

A MINUTE WITH CHIEF OBSORN

A partial reprint of Suffern Police Chief Clarke Osborne’s public musings “Chief’s Corner” Welcome to this edition of the Chief’s Corner! Since our last edition we have had a lot going on here in the great Village of Suffern so let’s get right to it. A few weeks ago we had a movie being filmed […]

Best and brightest to be honored at annual Youth Bureau awards

County Executive Edwin J. Day, the Rockland County Youth Bureau and the Board of Directors will present the 2016 Service Awards to deserving individuals at the 36th Annual Youth Forum and Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 19, 2016 from 6:30 – 9 p.m. at the Nyack Seaport. “Congratulations to this year’s honorees for their dedication […]