If you suffer a catastrophic injury or illness, it’s important to have protection in place for your family. A life event that permanently prevents you from performing any gainful work can cause a massive loss of income. Combined with the long-term medical bills from a severe injury to the spine, spinal cord, or brain, the […]
BY BARRY WARNER Police Auxiliary officers are unpaid volunteers who are called upon to supplement police department work as needed. Although members do not perform the full range of duties of a law officer and do not carry a gun, they take part in other efforts that preserve peace and order, prevent crime and protect […]
By County Executive Ed Day Metro-North (MNR) has once again refused my request to give our West of Hudson riders a ten-percent fare reduction. This is absolutely insulting to our commuters. After many phone calls, letters and meetings by myself and other local elected officials over the summer, NJ TRANSIT (NJT) announced a ten-percent discount […]
By Jamie Kempton As an outdoor sport, cross country is beholden to Mother Nature. If she proclaims snow, we run in snow. If she favors a deep freeze, we run in bitter cold. The competitors in the 36th annual Rockland Alumni Cross Country Run/Bill Markiewicz Memorial at Bear Mountain on November 24 encountered another seasonal […]
By: Joel Grossbarth Let the Judge be judged. A sitting Rockland County Court and Acting Supreme Court Judge and his wife are suing the Village of Pomona, its Board of Trustees and a Ramapo Police Officer over what is claimed to be a politically motivated arrest. Lisa Thorsen and her husband Hon. Rolf Thorsen filed […]
After being approached by the Pearl River Chamber of Commerce and many residents asking for help in revitalizing the downtown of our largest hamlet of Pearl River, the Orangetown Town Board voted to authorize as study by the Pace Law School Land Use Law Center and Kevin Dwarka LLC. The study was multifaceted, to include […]