To the Editor, In light of the proposed plans by the Orangetown Town Council to replace the existing Town Hall and its recent Request for Proposals concerning Architectural and Space Planning Services, the Town Council should consider incorporating viable space for an Orangetown senior citizen center. Throughout my thirteen years of living in Orangetown, I […]
NY Supreme Court Justice Hon. Alan D. Scheinkman dismissed Former Rockland County Board of Elections Commissioner Lou Babcock’s suit seeking court intervention on his ouster as BOE commissioner. Babcock claimed the Republican Party inappropriately removed him via dictate of the Executive Committee instead of allowing the full Republican Committee to vote. Hon. Scheinkman said the […]
The Satmar Hasidic sect brought hundreds of people to the village of Airmont board of Trustees meeting to protest the proposed building moratorium, thereby shutting down the meeting (due to lack of space). UTA has an application to build two school buildings on the old Regesh property on Cherry Lane Road. Because it’s 20 acres, […]
BY SUPERVISOR GEORGE HOEHMANN Everyone agrees that killing a police officer is so abhorrent that it warrants the toughest penalties allowed by our criminal justice system — including the death penalty. Everyone, it seems, except for Governor Cuomo. As supervisor of Clarkstown, the town where the Brinks robbery and murders took place, I am outraged over […]
PRESS RELEASE – Supervisor George Hoehmann today announced the creation of an independent Audit Committee to help continue the Supervisor’s fiscal responsibility and reform agenda. The three-member panel will consist of experts in accounting, finance or both and not be compensated. “Since taking office I, along with the town board, have cut government spending, reduced […]