The Orangetown Police Department will hold its annual open house this Saturday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., at the police station annex at  Town Hall, 26 W. Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg. According to Police Chief Kevin Nulty this will be the department’s 19th annual such event, aimed at giving the public a behind the scenes look […]
BY STEPHANIE GATES The most obvious indication that school is coming back to session are the ads for back to school sales in retail stores and on television. In fact, Rockland County School district begins in a less than ___ weeks [whenever you run this] and we know parents are beginning to budget for freshening […]
By Legislator Alden H. Wolfe (D- Montebello) Chairman Rockland County Legislature Each year, beginning in October, the Rockland County Legislature gets to work on the annual budget for the upcoming year. The budget process is spelled out in Article 4 of the Rockland County Charter. By law, the process begins with the County Executive submitting […]
Backman resigns as Vegas manager BY JOE RINI A marathon season for the Mets that’s seen Yoenis Cespedes trotting on horseback in the winter, Bartolo Colon’s first home run trot in the spring, and no Matt Harvey since the Fourth of July, is set to be decided in the opening days of autumn as the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND It is an opioid that’s 10,000 times more potent than morphine. A minuscule dose, no bigger than a snowflake, can kill a person on contact. Carfentanil is a synthetic anesthetic designed to tranquilize elephants. So why in the world is such a deadly ingredient being mixed with heroin? Perhaps its smarter to […]
By Aaron Moeller Anna Carter, vendor at the Piermont Farmer’s Market