NEW CITY, NY – – Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert caution Rockland residents and visitors about the continued importance of taking measures to protect against ticks, as a new tick species, the Haemaphysalis longicornis tick, commonly known as the “longhorned tick,” has been found in New York […]
WEST NYACK, N.Y.: On Saturday, August 18th, 2018 Palisades Center will host a Hawaiian dance performance by “Aloha Paradise” that will take audience members on a journey through the South Pacific Islands. As true Pacific Islanders, every aspect of this dance group demonstrates the Hawaiian culture. All Hawaiian costumes are handmade and a few performers […]
BY BARRY WARNER “It has been a busy summer,” began School Superintendent Ileana Eckert to the Rockland County Times, “Our biggest thing obviously is transitioning to full-day kindergarten for all our children. It has been a long wish of ours.” “The extra funding came from the Governor this year and for the next three years,” […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Here’s an idea: Instead of turning our schools into fortresses to try to prevent the next school shooting, how about we do more? As we contemplate adding metal detectors and bulletproof safe rooms to schools, how about we try an additional approach? How about setting up dedicated lines of communication within schools […]
Brooklyn, NY — Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has benefited from being born in America, unlike thousands who have emigrated to be part of our great nation, has succumbed to the depths of dark cynicism when he states that America was “never that great.” What a shameful statement from a man who is running for his […]
Colson Whitehead Named State Author and Alicia Ostriker Named State Poet Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday announced Colson Whitehead has been named New York’s 12th State Author and Alicia Ostrikerhas been named New York’s 11th State Poet. Whitehead, novelist, journalist, memoirist, and nonfiction writer will receive the New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction Writers; and […]