BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Clarkstown cops, police union leaders, officers’ spouses, Democratic Party operatives and others gathered at Tuesday’s Clarkstown Town Board meeting, holding a rally in support of suspended police chief, Michael Sullivan. It was also subtly a rally in support of law enforcement’s previously unquestioned “turf.” During two hours of public comments the group […]
NEW CITY, NY – Rockland County Executive Ed Day stood Thursday with the Anti-Defamation League and community leaders to denounce a hate crime targeting two rabbis. “There is no place for hate in Rockland,” he said from the steps of the old Rockland Courthouse where he led the rally with Human Rights Commissioner Penny Jennings […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM MAPS Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced their intention to grant licenses to additional marijuana growers for research, thereby ending the DEA-imposed 48-year monopoly on federally legal marijuana. Since 1968, the University of Mississippi, under contract to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has maintained the only facility in the […]
By: Legislator Harriet D. Cornell (D-West Nyack) We were all shocked and taken aback when we first learned that Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan was suspended from duty and was facing disciplinary charges. How, we wondered, could a decorated Police Chief with almost 30 years of service to Clarkstown alone, suddenly be removed from his […]
At the Haverstraw Town Board meeting this week, the three recipients from the 13th Annual North Rockland Community 5K Run/Walk were presented each with a check of $9,500. Each recipient has serious medical needs and these funds were made possible by the numerous local businesses and participants from the 5K fundraiser this past June. Supervisor […]
BY KATHY KAHN A new cardiothoracic team has joined Good Samaritan Hospital, bringing advanced heart surgery back to both Rockland and Orange counties. The original director of the heart surgery program at Good Samaritan Hospital, Dr. Edward Lundy, had left the hospital. Drs. Chirag Badami and Bruce Toporoff have brought their extensive skills to Good […]