Rockland County Asks EPA to Protect Hudson River

COUNTY PRESS RELEASE –  Rockland County Executive Ed Day is one of four leaders from the Hudson Valley asking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to protect the Hudson River from contamination. County Executive Day is requesting that the EPA review evidence that there is a continuing need to remove PCB-contaminated sediment in the Upper Hudson […]

“PUPPETS” THAT HAVE PERSONALITIES OF THEIR OWN: Review of TV Pilot “Puppets,” debuting at the Hoboken Film Festival

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Several Rockland County legal professionals led by attorney Larry Weissmann have traded the courtroom for the TV studio and the results will surprise and amuse you. Debuting on Saturday, May 20 at the Hoboken Film Festival in Greenwood Lake, NY, “Puppets” tells the story of a puppet husband and wife who star on TV and live in […]

Stony Point supports proposed changes to Coast Guard barge plan

Stony Point supports proposed changes to Coast Guard barge plan

BY KATHY KAHN  The U.S. Coast Guard’s plan to place several “parking spots” for crude oil barges and other tankers along the banks of the Hudson is being challenged in Albany. The barge anchorage locations the Coast Guard is entertaining would permit more than 40 barges to “rest”  along the river’s coastline from Yonkers to Kingston […]

East Ramapo School District in Nasty Fight With Its Insurance Company

East Ramapo School District in Nasty Fight With Its Insurance Company

BY JOEL GROSSBARTH The embattled East Ramapo School District has been entangled in a nasty legal fight with its own insurance company. The fight has culminated in a decision recently handed down by an appellate court in Brooklyn. In East Ramapo Central School District v. New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal, the insurance company issued a policy […]

With St. Lawrence gone, Ramapo must find a better way to carry on

With St. Lawrence gone, Ramapo must find a better way to carry on

BY KATHY KAHN  May 24 was Ramapo’s first “normal” workshop and town board meeting since the disgraced politician was led away in handcuffs. Former Deputy and current Acting Supervisor Yitzchok Ullman sat in St. Lawrence’s seat, and the board is now short one member, a vacancy which must be filled. Last night, the remaining board […]

TZHS TEAM TAKES SECOND PLACE IN NYS HISTORY DAY COMPETITION

TZHS TEAM TAKES SECOND PLACE IN NYS HISTORY DAY COMPETITION

On Monday, April 24, 2017, TZHS juniors Ruben Sriskanda, Jake Laddis, and Eli Gordon participated in the New York State History Day Competition in Cooperstown. Their website entitled “The Unlikely Community” about the gay rights movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century took second place from amongst two dozen other projects in the group website category. […]