By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Once again here in Rockland we have a solution that is needlessly becoming a problem. The solution: we have successfully negotiated a contract with sheriff deputies who have been working without one for six years that is fair to them and fair to the taxpayer. The problem: some in […]
STATEMENT BY ASSEMBLYWOMAN ELLEN JAFFEE I stand with Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, and my Democratic colleagues in opposition to President Trump’s discriminatory executive actions and to his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, 10th US Circuit Court Justice, to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Gorsuch’s rulings do not support equality and civil rights for […]
PRESS RELEASE– The conservation so passionately called for by Rockland County Legislator Harriet Cornell and other local water stewards may soon be a reality following a draft order by the Public Service Commission concerning a rate hike request by Suez Water. The PSC last week decided not to accept a three-year joint proposal that would […]
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 […]