Orangetown Council, Democratic ticket

Heather Hurley, Democratic candidate for Orangetown Council (also appearing on Green, Orangetown First and Women’s Equality lines)  BIO I have lived in Orangetown for the last eight years. I am the mother of a teenager, a community advocate since 2014, and a small business owner. I became involved in Orangetown civics when an application to experimentally […]

Preserve Groups Endorse Ed Day

Preserve Groups Endorse Ed Day

Preserve Ramapo and Preserve Airmont have announced that they strongly support Ed Day for re-election as county executive. Preserve Ramapo: Shortly after Ed Day became county executive he discovered that our county had only $20,000 in the bank and was going to have real difficulty even meeting its payroll. The buck had been passed up […]

DIANE DIMOND: How Many Tyra Pattersons Are There?

DIANE DIMOND: How Many Tyra Pattersons Are There?

BY DIANE DIMOND It’s one of those criminal cases that makes you shake your head in disbelief. Within a few weeks, 42-year-old Tyra Patterson will be released from an Ohio prison after serving 23 years for a murder she is now widely believed not to have committed. She will have spent more than half her […]

LETTER FROM READER: Piermont trustee wrong-headed in rebuke of Ed Day

LETTER FROM READER: Piermont trustee wrong-headed in rebuke of Ed Day

To the Editor, After reading a Letter to the Editor in a local town newspaper by yet elected Piermont Trustee Ivanya Alpert, I couldn’t help but laugh at her attempt to infer that Ed Day is somehow racist or anti-Semitic because of the factual concerns in this county and his saving this county from bankruptcy. Her […]

Candidate profiles: RAMAPO DEMOCRATS FOR TOWN COUNCIL

Candidate profiles: RAMAPO DEMOCRATS FOR TOWN COUNCIL

David Wanounou Candidate for Town of Ramapo Council LINES – Row A, Democratic Party BIO I am an entrepreneur and small business owner who has lived and worked in Ramapo for more than 20 years. My wife and I are raising our five children here. As a businessman and an active member of the community, […]

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