More than 150 Soldiers with the Army Reserve’s 668th Engineer Company (Vertical) are showing off their construction skills here while training for their upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. The unit from Orangeburg, N.Y., is at Contingency Operating Location Westbrook under the watchful eyes of observer controller/trainers of the 5th Armored Brigade’s 2nd Battalion, 361st Combat Support […]
ARRESTS AND INCIDENTS RECENTLY REPORTED TO THE MEDIA BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: DA REPORT: William Alexander, age 38, residing at 1102 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, was indicted on December 6, 2011 by a Rockland County Grand Jury for the crimes of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the 2nd Degree, Attempted Grand Larceny in […]
BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM Las Margaritas (formally Fiesta Cancun) may become a Quick Chek convenience store and gas station sooner rather than later. At this week’s Stony Point board meeting a Quick Chek representative, Jeff Albanese, presented the current plan that the company has drawn up, in the event Quick Chek officially acquires the property. […]
Lower, middle and upper-class will receive tax reductions, multi-millionaires will receive tax hike similar to current “millionaire’s tax” On Tuesday Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced they have reached a proposed three-way agreement on legislative and executive proposals to create jobs and cut taxes for middle class New […]
Debra Ortutay, chair of the Rockland County Independence Party, has pled guilty to charges of forgery and perjury pertaining to ballots filled out when her son-in-law Frank Sparaco Jr., ran for Assembly against Kenneth Zebrowski. Sparaco was seeking to gain access to the Independence Party line and amazingly, Ortutay has pled guilty to forging signatures […]
Holiday partying on the agenda along with serious items The Congers Civic Association will hold its final meeting of the year December 8 at 8 p.m. at the Congers Veterans Memorial Association building at 66 Lake Road. The association, one of the largest and most active in Rockland County, holds general membership and public meetings four […]