By Michael Riconda New City – The Rotary Club of New City celebrated 60 years of community engagement on Monday, March 25 with brief presentations on the club’s history and accomplishments, including an extensive record of community service. “Rotary is all about service and service is all about people,” former president Sandi Jeanette said. “At […]
BY HARRY WALTZMAN Valentine’s Day driving past the florist just opened in Congers, I stopped and ignored the roses, as too fragile my wife always forgets to water them. I spied a strange plant new to my sight, Rolling back the tin foil covering it’s base, it was a bromeliad clutching a bowl of sand […]
John Corcoran and John Fox, you have some competition as far as being the officials seals of Stony Point. Folks gathered at the Pennybridge Marina in Stony Point (on the border with Haverstraw) Wednesday were in for a big surprise when this youngster showed up. It is highly uncommon, though not unprecedented, for seals to […]
By Anthony Melé RCT Contributor According to Reuters and A.P. field reports and the New York Times, the United States support of rebels in Syria is directly benefitting the Al Nusra Front, which is allied with Al-Qaeda. In fact, Al Nusra has become the de facto leaders of the entire rebel movement, international news media […]
National Endowment for the Humanities “Muslim Journeys” program elicits both praise and controversy BY MICHAEL RICONDA A new library program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and benefitting Rockland Community College has raised questions on public funding going to what some activists have characterized as religious programs. The Muslim Journeys Bookshelf is a […]
Quinn’s bid for Mayor may be weaker than it appears BY ADAM LOMBARDI, QUEENS-POLITICS.COM By now you’ve all read the scathing article in the New York Times regarding Christine Quinn’s temper issue. It must be serious when the New York Times runs a full length story on how she treats her colleagues and constituents. Anyway, the story […]