COUNTY EXECUTIVE PRESS RELEASE– Rockland County Executive Ed Day today praised the Republican members of the Legislature for standing up for law enforcement by scheduling a special meeting to vote on the sheriff deputy’s contract. “Our heroes in blue have been waiting six years for a new contract,” Day said. “We had a deal that was […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH The sentencing for Kelly Gribeluk, the co-conspirator who admitted involvement in a plot to kill her boyfriend’s wife, has been rescheduled for May 16, 2017. County Court Judge David Zuckerman ordered a pre-sentence investigation to be performed by the Rockland County Department of Probation. A pre-sentence investigation is customary in most felony […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Here’s a thought. Maybe we’ve been going about trying to reduce the rising murder rate in this country the wrong way. Maybe, instead of taking an aerial view of the problem, we should have been looking at things from down at the street level — analyzing crime reports neighborhood by neighborhood to […]
Local sales tax collections showed sluggish growth in 2016 compared to 2015, increasing 2.3 percent last year, according to a statement released this week by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. “Sales tax collections are a crucial, yet unstable source of revenue for local governments,” said DiNapoli. “The impact of little to no growth is […]
CARLUCCI PRESS RELEASE – During Monday’s Senate session in Albany, Senator Carlucci voted with an overwhelming majority to strip convicted public officials of their pensions and released a statement following the vote. Carlucci has supported the bill since his first day in office. “Politicians should not be allowed to receive any type of sweetheart public pensions from […]
PRESS RELEASE – Rockland County has been awarded $1.2 million state grant to encourage women to breastfeed, County Executive Ed Day announced today. The county was one of only 6 organizations in New York awarded the grant by the state Department of Health. “We want to increase both the number of new moms who are breastfeeding and […]