PRESS RELEASE — Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) has been appointed chair of the Senate’s Consumer Protection Committee he announced this week. “Any business, utility or corporation that takes advantage of its consumers is put on notice that scams and injustice will not be tolerated. Making sure that consumers and businesses have an honest relationship is […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Upon the birth of a new year, let’s talk about death, shall we? Or the death penalty, to be precise. The topic loomed over a courtroom in Charleston, South Carolina, this week, where the self-proclaimed white supremacist Dylann Roof undertook a fool’s errand. After a jury quickly found him guilty of the […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT In this Ombudsman’s first article on the the massive $24 billion Gateway Project published on November 24, 2016, its title was “Rebuilding Our Crumbling Tunnels” and referred to the decrepit railroad tunnels built under the Hudson river more than 108 years’ ago and comprised the vital rail transportation links between New […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Comedy Night at Westchester Broadway Theatre, Elmsford coming up Tuesday, January 24 featuring six popular comics: Paul Bond, Mike Cannon, Peyton Carlson, Michael Harrison, David Jams and Corey Rodriguez. Coming in February “The Piano Men,” tribute to Billy Joel and Elton John and The Young Irelanders, traditional Irish and Celtic music […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA Stories, in general, have the ability to help us understand the world and the experiences we go through. They teach us timeless lessons and provide us with the opportunity to see ourselves in the characters and feel a connection to them that assists us in coming to terms with our own lives. […]
Peekskill Police Officer Runs over Two Teens; Ramapo Police Accused of Cover up On September 7, 2016 a Peekskill Police officer ran over two yeshiva students on Route 22. The officer, Jonathan Mosquera, 24 years old of Suffern, was late for his night shift with the Peekskill Police Department and was allegedly speeding, trying to […]