At Wednesday’s board meeting Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and the town board voted Councilman Yitzchok Ullman as deputy supervisor, ending Councilman Patrick Withers two-year stint in the position. Withers has butted heads with St. Lawrence at times. He stood alongside former Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman, who passed away in an apparent suicide Friday, in calling […]
Chestnut Ridge man gets max in domestic violence case NEW CITY – A 23-year-old Chestnut Ridge man was sentenced Wednesday in Rockland County Court to one-and-one-third to four years in state prison – the maximum sentence – for his conviction on a charge of felony criminal mischief. Early on the morning of January 22, 2014, […]
PRESS RELEASE – Toney L. Earl will serve as Chair of the Rockland County Legislature for its 2017 session. Earl (D-Hillcrest) was selected in a unanimous 13-0 vote Wednesday night. “I am so honored by the confidence my colleagues have placed in me by choosing me to serve as Chairman,” Earl said. “It is a […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Years before our nation was attacked on Sept. 11, there was a terror attack right here in Rockland. Oct. 20, 1981 – the day that domestic terrorists with a violent ideology that made sense only to them attacked was Rockland’s Sept. 11. Just like Sept. 11 changed our nation, […]
BY JERRY DEMARCO NEW CITY – Detectives from the gang unit in Paterson, N.J., who stopped to check out an idling car blocking traffic found two pounds of pot inside and arrested both occupants — one of them from New City, authorities said. Driver Steven Baker, 22, of Lodi, and passenger Keith Chandler, 26, were […]
Just in time for Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, a local Jewish school decided to convert sunlight into enough electricity to power over 90 percent of its annual use. With a 45,000-square foot rooftop array, Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland (ASHAR) is the first Jewish school in Rockland County to go solar. For Rabbi Ari […]