To the Editor: Several entities and organizations regularly publish rankings of school districts involving individual district achievements. The rankings include: Best School Districts, Best Teachers, Best High Schools, Safest School Districts, etc. These rankings occasionally cause confusion among parents, students and property taxpayers with regard to how their respective school districts are actually performing. The […]
Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) this week announced that as of July 1, 2018, a new regulation went into effect to address aggressive real estate solicitation in the incorporated Village of Chestnut Ridge in Rockland County, NY. The regulation prohibits real estate brokers, real estate salespeople, and other persons regularly engaged in the buying and selling […]
Customers can participate to preserve resources with lawn watering program SUEZ announced today that it is again offering a complimentary lawn watering education program called Evapotranspiration for customers in New York, Delaware and South Jersey. Evapotranspiration (ET) is a measure of water loss from soil through evaporation and moisture loss from plant life […]
With Revival of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” Producers Scheduling More Musicals in 2019 and More Special Concerts BY GEORGE J. DACRE Westchester Broadway Theatre’s [WBT] co-producers Robert Funking along with William Stutler, put on their first show “Kiss Me Kate” on July 9, 1974, and learned soon after that musicals were what their audiences wanted. […]
By Supervisor George Hoehmann If you think finding consensus in today’s America is difficult, we should all consider and be encouraged by the experiences that shaped us before we were a nation. The path to American Independence was hardly an easy one. The debate that took place among the Founders and the colonist population centered […]
BY BARRY WARNER Firefighters who fight structure fires have to deal with an additional challenge this week: the excessive heat wave. Firefighters wear heavy turnout gear that makes it difficult to stay cool. They have to be fully encapsulated with no area of skin exposed to blistering temperatures. Through mutual-aid or agreement with other departments, […]