PEARL RIVER, NY Jan. 10, 2017 — Calling all teachers who strive for that, “Oh, Wow!” moment in their classrooms. Get your proposals ready. O&R this week announced that it will award grants totaling $35,000 to support classroom projects and teacher professional-development initiatives. Those proposals should ride the cutting edge, focusing on science, technology, engineering […]
Two senior leaders from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will be presenting “Outlook on the Economy: National and Regional Perspectives” on January 13, 2017, at 8:30 a.m. in the Fury Lecture Hall in the Prusmack Center. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8 a.m. Joseph Tracy, executive vice president and senior advisor to […]
PRESS RELEASE — Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) has been appointed chair of the Senate’s Consumer Protection Committee he announced this week. “Any business, utility or corporation that takes advantage of its consumers is put on notice that scams and injustice will not be tolerated. Making sure that consumers and businesses have an honest relationship is […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Upon the birth of a new year, let’s talk about death, shall we? Or the death penalty, to be precise. The topic loomed over a courtroom in Charleston, South Carolina, this week, where the self-proclaimed white supremacist Dylann Roof undertook a fool’s errand. After a jury quickly found him guilty of the […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT In this Ombudsman’s first article on the the massive $24 billion Gateway Project published on November 24, 2016, its title was “Rebuilding Our Crumbling Tunnels” and referred to the decrepit railroad tunnels built under the Hudson river more than 108 years’ ago and comprised the vital rail transportation links between New […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Comedy Night at Westchester Broadway Theatre, Elmsford coming up Tuesday, January 24 featuring six popular comics: Paul Bond, Mike Cannon, Peyton Carlson, Michael Harrison, David Jams and Corey Rodriguez. Coming in February “The Piano Men,” tribute to Billy Joel and Elton John and The Young Irelanders, traditional Irish and Celtic music […]