BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Several Orangetown homeowners learned Tuesday that their properties have been removed from the town’s official floodplain map, saving them an average of $5,000 annually in their insurance rates. The amendment to the town’s official 1982 floodplain map was approved unanimously by the five-member Town BoardTuesday evening, acting on the recommendation […]
The Jewish Home Family is offering an innovative internship program in conjunction with Long Island University (LIU) Rockland campus in Orangeburg, N.Y. Charlene Vannucci, Jewish Home Family’s Director of Volunteer Services, is the creator and coordinator of the program. “This internship program is the very first of its kind,” she said. “The interns get a […]
Dear NYS Education Commissioner King, Over the past several months there have been numerous forums throughout Dutchess County, focused on the implementation of Common Core. Clearly, it is an issue that has sparked great concern among the parents and educators of Dutchess County. As county executive and parent of two school aged children, one receiving […]
A two-year old Terrier mix, Bella has a tan coat, a white chest and totally gentle, light brown eyes that look adoringly at anyone near her. She has a wrinkled brow that makes her appear worried. Looks are deceiving because she is a happy girl. Abandoned in Bear Mountain State Park, she roamed around the […]
They were supposed to journey to the annual Right to Life march in Washington D.C. that coincides with the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, but Governor Andrew Cuomo closed the roads due to Tuesday night’s snowstorm. So, as fate would have it, the decision of the governor stopped the pro-life protesters […]
To the Editor, I woke up the other morning to the radio telling me that Governor Cuomo will be speaking that day about the possibility of allowing pot to be legal for medical use. Are you kidding me? What is he thinking? Is he high? If you’re going to go the route of legal pot, […]