COUNTY PRESS RELEASE – Rockland County Executive Ed Day joined other officials last Thursday, Oct. 5 to announce the completion of a flood-prevention project along the Minisceongo Creek in West Haverstraw. “The work we have done will prevent a repeat of the catastrophic flooding that occurred here six years ago during Hurricane Irene,” he said. […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT City Editor Due to increasing use of public lands for both bicycles and motorized sports vehicles and the imminent opening of the bike path on the New Tappan Zee, the Town of Orangetown has decided to try and gauge residents opinions about biking on local streets and parks. With many residents attempting […]
Those who stayed loyal to British crown examined BY ROBERT KNIGHT City Editor An exhibition, possibly the first ever held in Rockland County, will spotlight loyalists residing here during the revolutionary War who supported continued linkage with Great Britain rather than separation from Mother England and the formation of a new and independent United States […]
26 No. DeBaun Ave. unit104 Suffern, NY 10901    Our Annual Candidates’ Forum will be held on Sunday, October 29th from 2 to 4:30 pm at the JCC Rockland, 450 West Nyack Rd. West Nyack. The candidates are: County Executive: Maureen Porette, Edwin Day & Thomas Sullivan Town of Clarkstown Supervisor: Michael R. Sullivan […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT OMBUDSMAN The question in this article’s title was posed in an emergency coast-to-coast conference call held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 by a coalition of leading safety and consumer advocates and families of victims of deadly vehicle defects which called on the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to […]
Assemblyman James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) has announced a $7,000 grant to fund the purchase of speed radar signs for the Stony Point Police Department. Assemblyman Skoufis was approached last year by a local resident who expressed concern that her neighborhood along Major Andre Drive was being used as a cut-through by speeding motorists. Skoufis then got […]