The Satmar Hasidic sect brought hundreds of people to the village of Airmont board of Trustees meeting to protest the proposed building moratorium, thereby shutting down the meeting (due to lack of space). UTA has an application to build two school buildings on the old Regesh property on Cherry Lane Road. Because it’s 20 acres, […]
BY SUPERVISOR GEORGE HOEHMANN Everyone agrees that killing a police officer is so abhorrent that it warrants the toughest penalties allowed by our criminal justice system — including the death penalty. Everyone, it seems, except for Governor Cuomo. As supervisor of Clarkstown, the town where the Brinks robbery and murders took place, I am outraged over […]
PRESS RELEASE – Supervisor George Hoehmann today announced the creation of an independent Audit Committee to help continue the Supervisor’s fiscal responsibility and reform agenda. The three-member panel will consist of experts in accounting, finance or both and not be compensated. “Since taking office I, along with the town board, have cut government spending, reduced […]
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 […]