BY DIANE DIMOND You’ve probably heard that if a couple lives together for — blank — number of years they are, in effect, legally married in the eyes of the state. Some people think that their relationship magically becomes a common-law marriage after seven years together; others believe it happens at 10 years. I’m here […]
Rockland County’s newly reconstructed Montebello Road Bridge has been awarded a place in a 2017 calendar put out by the New York Conference on Bridges, Rockland County Executive Ed Day announced this week. The bridge, which spans the Mahwah River, will be featured in the calendar for the month of May. “We’re proud to show […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM CAPPNY In a letter released Monday, 220 organizations, businesses and faith groups are calling on the lead agencies of the environmental review to make an “extraordinary effort” to gather public input about the risks associated with the proposed Pilgrim Pipelines, which would carry dangerous Bakken crude oil south from the Port of Albany […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert this week announced that free rabies shots (vaccinations) are available for cats, dogs and ferrets on Sunday, October 2, 2016, from 10 AM until 1 PM at the Rockland County Fire Training Center, 35 Firemen’s Memorial Drive in Pomona. […]
After spending more than 24 hours lost in the Bear Mountain State Park, two Brooklyn teenagers were found safe and well. The 16-year-old boys, Moshe Tzvi Ledereuch and Yosef Yitzchak Rothman, were part of a 200-person hiking group from Brooklyn. They were reported missing when they didn’t return to the bus Thursday evening. According to […]
FROM THE DA’S OFFICE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe today announced the filing of criminal charges against the Town of Ramapo Director of Building, Planning and Zoning for allegedly stealing over $100,000 in a yearlong scheme to falsify building permit applications as the result of an investigation conducted by the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office Special […]