PRESS RELEASE FROM DEPT. OF HEALTH Do you have a chronic health concern that is stopping you from living your life to its fullest? Have you tried to lose weight but have not been able to keep it off? Do you have concerns about falling? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Rockland […]
Dr. Willie L. Bryant, a dentist, community organizer and influential human rights activist in the Mid-Hudson Valley for more than 45 years has died. He was 77. Bryant was a major catalyst – working with New York State Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffe and the late state legislator William Darden – for the erection of the Thurgood […]
To the Editor, Assemblyman Skoufis has pending legislation (A5098) entitled Tuition-Free NY which would grant free tuition, regardless of income, to all NYS – resident SUNY and CUNY undergraduate students attending two-year and four-year colleges. I first heard about this legislation at a meeting early last year soon after he proposed this bill. This sounded very enticing at first […]
PRESS RELEASE The New York State Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday announced the State’s Medical Marijuana Program will launch on January 7 as scheduled — 18 months after Governor Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act. The program will make approved forms of medical marijuana available with a physician’s certification at designated dispensaries across New […]
The Archdiocese of New York has announced the dates for its 2016 “Touring Tuesdays,” events at 140 elementary schools throughout the Archdiocese of New York. These archdiocesan-wide open house events will take place on select Tuesdays throughout the school year from 9 – 11 a.m., or by appointment. The 2016 dates are January 12, February […]
On January 4 the Stony Point Police Department arrested 29-year-old Broc Donnison on two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. The New Berlin, NY man allegedly was found in possession of 13 envelopes of heroin, several hypodermic needles and suboxone during a traffic stop in town. He was released on […]