Council refuses to pass resolution that would allow town to exceed 2 percent limit, if necessary BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Orangetown Town Board agreed to disagree on next year’s property taxes Tuesday evening and will continue to debate the matter until the deadline approaches in mid-Novermber. Supervisor Andrew Stewart, a […]
Topic of 16th annual STOP F.E.A.R. Coalition conference and Polaris Project training October 23, 2013— Human sex trafficking will be the main topic at the 16th annual STOP F.E.A.R. conference slated for November 1 from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Rockland Community College’s Technology Center. Prior to the STOP F.E.A.R. conference on November 1, the Coalition […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM SUPERVISOR ANDY STEWART Local parkland must be “alienated” by NYS before it can be used for other purposes. Earlier this year, the Town worked with the NYS Assembly and Senate to obtain passage of legislation that would give the Town the right to use the 65 acres of Broadacres lands for commercial […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE On Sunday afternoon, in the theatre and stage room of the First United Methodist Church on Main Street in Stony Point, the Hudson Lyric Opera Company performed in very high style Puccinni’s three one act operas. It was a very professional production with great singing and acting, a wonderful orchestra and […]
Dear Editor, United Water and French parents “Suez Environnement” and “GDF Suez” want us to drink “desalinated” water from the common trough of the Hudson River. After all, GDF CEO Mestrallet is a French Socialist. The Tritium and Strontium-90 leaking into the Hudson are called “radionuclides.” United Water’s “Haverstraw Water Supply Project” Draft Environmental Impact […]
Sports columnist Marc Maturo’s official column At Dominican College in Orangeburg, the women’s cross country team returns to Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia, Pa., on Oct. 27, where it placed seventh at the Jack Saint Clair Memorial Championships. Senior Krystal Campbell of New Windsor led Dominican, finishing 16th with a time of 26:56, while Nyack HS graduate Renee […]