By Supervisor Michael B. Specht Being my very first column for this newspaper, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dylan Skriloff and the Rockland County Times for allowing me to address issues of importance for the Town of Ramapo and all of Rockland. Last week, on October 24, Americans were shaken to […]
CORRECTION – [This article originally reported the wrong winner of the Orangetown clerk race] BY KATHY KAHN Governor Andrew Cuomo and his running mate, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, easily won victory over Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro Tuesday. A blue wave that did not quite materialize nationally did, in fact, swamp downstate New York. […]
Deadly Car Accident on Palisades Pkwy A Spring Valley woman was killed in a car accident on Thursday Nov. 1 after her husband’s car hit a deer and rolled over. Miriam Kofi, 50, was pronounced dead at Nyack Hospital after the accident near Exit 10 on the Palisades Parkway. The couple was driving down the […]
By Kathy Kahn Auntie El’s Farm Market, a 33-year-old landmark on Route 17 South near the entrance to I-87, will soon have some upscale customers next door to the family’s store. Woodmont Properties has purchased nearly 55 acres of undeveloped land (formerly owned by the Town of Ramapo Development Corp.) in the unincorporated Town of […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF On Friday, November 2, an advertisement hit Facebook featuring a false headline underneath the masthead of the Rockland County Times paper. The fake headline directly contradicts what the paper had actually reported, reading: “BREAKING NEWS: Tom Basile will break the tax cap.” The actual headline on the website reads, “Stony Point […]
Story and Photos by Kathy Kahn As if Rockland doesn’t have its fair share of problems, one it doesn’t need is the faux pas NJ Transit imposed on its Rockland riders when it gave a 10 percent discount to its ridership in New Jersey but did not extend it to the other side of the […]