TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM WELCOMES A NEW CANTOR

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM WELCOMES A NEW CANTOR

New cantor brings a focus on the power of relationships and her passion for Reform Judaism to TBS community Cantor Meara Lebovitz has accepted a position with Temple Beth Sholom of New City, New York. She is thrilled to join the TBS family and brings her desire to support people in times of challenge, her […]

Spring Valley man killed while walking on Palisades Parkway

Spring Valley man killed while walking on Palisades Parkway

POMONA – A Spring Valley man who was walking on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Pomona late Friday night, July 3 was struck and killed by a passing motorist. State Police identified the victim as Genoval Gonzalez Quintana, 47, who was killed around 11:15 p.m. near exit 12. The driver was returning home from work […]

A Little-Known Law Gave Birth to Google – and Countless Other Inventions

A Little-Known Law Gave Birth to Google – and Countless Other Inventions

By Katharine Ku When Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin spoke to my colleagues at Stanford’s technology licensing office in the late 1990s, other search engines already existed. But Page and Brin, who were graduate students at the time, believed the page-rank algorithm they had developed at Stanford was superior, even though no other […]

County Executive’s Corner: “Justice for Paula”

County Executive’s Corner: “Justice for Paula”

By County Executive Ed Day Last year, Richard LaBarbera, one of the monsters who brutally murdered 16-year-old Paula Bohovesky in the fall of 1980 in Pearl River, was granted parole. As disturbing as this decision was, our community and Paula’s still-grieving mother, Lois Bohovesky, were granted a brief reprieve when LaBarbera violated his parole by […]

Letter to the Editor: Community Solar Program

Letter to the Editor: Community Solar Program

To the editor, If you live in Clarkstown or Orangetown, you probably received a letter recently about community solar from your town. As a longtime leader in Rockland Sierra Club, I’m getting questions from friends and neighbors about these letters so I thought to answer here. The letters from the town supervisors are about an […]