STORY AND PHOTOS BY ALLAN GOLDSTEIN Nyack Youth Center hosts large crowd at program that discussed NY’s new tax cap On Thursday evening February 9, the Nyack Youth Center was filled almost to capacity as local residents and school district administrators attended a program highlighting key elements of the New York state property tax levy […]
New City’s Gittelman School will be purchased by Schrieber Academy (ASHAR) The Reuben Gittelman Hebrew Day School, a 61,000-square-foot building on New Hempstead Road, will be sold to Adolph H. Schrieber Hebrew Academy in Monsey. This will take place after the school shuts down operations at the end of the school year. Gittelman’s school board […]
Rockland Tea Party Patriots have announced a meeting at New City Library, Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 p.m., where former candidate for Haverstraw Town Council, Lynn Teger, will discuss how she believes Agenda 21 – “Sustainable Development” is creeping into our communities and destroying our liberties. Teger says that Clarkstown and Orangetown have been members […]
BY PUBLISHER EMERITUS ARMAND MIELE Political parties should pay for their own primaries in New York. Why should taxpayers be responsible? Primaries benefit no one but the politicians. It’s their problem, so let them pay for it. The Republican and Democratic parties control our government. Each have their internal quarrels, and that’s fine. They don’t […]
To the Editor, Effective February 2, 2012, section 103(e) was added to the New York State Open Meetings Law. Government records to be discussed during open meetings are to be made available to the public prior to the meetings. This is an improvement as despite all that is positive in the governing of Rockland county’s […]
EDITORIAL BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Pro-choice demonstrators ought not to stop at forcing the Susan G. Komen Foundation to continue their financial commitment to Planned Parenthood, they should OCCUPY KOMEN until they give ALL available money to Planned Parenthood. After all, it’s clearly the business of the news media, and the pro-choice movement, to see that […]