Sparky’s Diner hosts film crew for new Pitt, Jonah Hill, James Franco feature BY MICHAEL RICONDA Garnerville – Sparky’s Diner in Garnerville has been confirmed as one site of filming for a big name movie set for release in 2014, produced by Brad Pitt and starring Jonah Hill and James Franco. The film, titled “True […]
Governor Cuomo and other state officials told media on Wednesday that they want to pass an exemption on the NY SAFE Act for films and television. Many films and TV shows feature the dramatized use of military-style rifles and high capacity handguns. State officials said they might also need to pass an exemption for police […]
Sweeping fraud and abuse uncovered in state’s STAR rebate program; DA announces amnesty opportunity Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe announced on Wednesday that authorities in Rockland had discovered rampant abuse of the STAR tax rebate for homeowners. He is offering offending homeowners an “amnesty” opportunity through April 1: if they pay restitution for moneys […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland County Legislature held a discussion on February 26 on upcoming updates to fully-electronic record-keeping systems within the Department of Health in line with federal Medicaid protocol. Town of Orangetown Councilman and Assistant Director of MIS Application Development at Camp Venture Denis Troy presented a general overview of the project, which […]
To the Editor, I feel the need to respond to Legislator Ed Day’s remarks concerning Harriet Cornell, Chairwoman of the Rockland County Legislature, specifically suggesting that Mrs. Cornell was in some way hostile to the law enforcement community. I can, without hesitation, state that as a legislator and as chairwoman, Mrs. Cornell has been a […]
Arguably the most influential reporter in the history of the United States, Bob Woodward, the man who along with Carl Bernstein revealed the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, has been threatened by the Obama administration. Woodward merely reported that Obama’s account of the current sequestration debate was not accurate (in his opinion) and […]