BY GEORGE J. DACRE Jakub Spisak, a foreign exchange student at Ramapo High School, won for best Acting Performance in the Metropolitan High School Theatre Awards ceremony given out at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theatre In Peekskill Monday. Gregory DeCola, who played Herbert Parchester in Tappan Zee High School’s “Me and My Girl,” and Eileen […]
Bill advances to increase teen pre-enrollment The Democratic Party continues to be successful nationwide and in New York with efforts to change electoral laws so that enrollment and voter participating by sympathetic demographics increase. Republicans have failed to keep pace with their liberal counterparts on these vote-positive efforts, such as by passing laws to encourage […]
Review of “Fast and Furious” By Vincent Abbatecola Generally, most of the franchises that get sequels are either superhero adventures or the latest horror story that receives a new installment every Halloween. When director Rob Cohen’s “The Fast and the Furious” was released in June 2001, it was hard to believe that a movie about […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – The County Legislature unanimously passed a resolution on June 4 barring the processing and use of wastewater produced by hydrofracking within the county. The passage elicited strong support from attendant environmental activists and organizations, who spoke in favor of the law in a public hearing prior to the vote. […]
Wheeler watch begins, D’Arnaud on the mend BY JOE RINI While periodical cicadas were emerging from the ground after a 17 year wait to screech their way to a mate, the New York Mets swept the season series from the New York Yankees for the first time in this the seventeenth year of inter-league play […]
LACORTE PRESS RELEASE Mayor Dagan Lacorte, Democratic Party candidate for Rockland County Executive, said the Rockland County Legislature must block outgoing County Executive Scott Vanderhoef from installing his political consultant Sean Mathews as the county’s real property director at a salary $23,900 higher than the previous occupant and for years into the next County Executive’s […]