Local Student to Train for Olympics Maria Garcia, a senior at North Rockland High School, decided to shift her dream from studying nursing at Dominican College to training for the Olympics in racewalking. Garcia, 17, accepted an academic scholarship for the fall and planned to solely focus on becoming a nurse. She was preparing to […]
Many PC users were doing just fine until they were “forced” to “upgrade” to windows 10 by Microsoft. Evidence of this fact may be found in the high volume of complaints received by many “geeks” interviewed by this writer in recent weeks. According to all of these geeks, at the heart of this problem is […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Rockland County fire inspectors have already started inspecting 49 private schools that either failed to comply with regulations or were given questionable grades. It’s not something we wanted to do. But when the schools failed to follow the law and the municipalities in which they are located turned a […]
Johnson, Backman and Orosco share recollections STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOE RINI “There’s not a greater city than New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. I firmly believe that,” said former manager Davey Johnson, whose 1986 Mets succeeded in New York and everywhere else in capturing a World Championship […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE This Pulitzer Prize winner is the story of a suburban housewife who battles many mental issues possibly caused by the death of her infant son in an auto accident. In some haunting scenes her issues are played out through visions of her son in his teens. Her family is forced to […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Assemblyman Karl Brabenec (R,C,I-Deerpark) on Wednesday joined his Republican colleagues and members of the Senate at a press conference held by Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C-Canandaigua) calling for passage of legislation to combat the state’s growing heroin and opioid addiction crisis before session adjourns later this month. Assembly Republicans held […]