By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Talking among friends last week, our discussion turned to the latest job numbers. One person remarked, “Rockland’s unemployment rate is down almost a point from the same time last year. This is great news!” True, it’s a big improvement over where we were. But, great news? Not if […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Historians from around the region toured several historic Dutch sandstone homes and barns throughout Rockland County this week, admiring their architecture and contemplating ways in which some of those threatened with destruction might be saved and even preserved. The tours were organized by the Historical Society of […]
Sale of Summit Park on front burner BY KATHY KAHN If Rocklanders have been in a daze over the state of the county’s finances, their new county executive has been working his way through the daze and the haze to get the county on a positive track. Former Legislator Ed Day, who won by a […]
Only one week after Senator Chuck Schumer visited Rockland warning that local first responders need more access to information of train contents to assist with fighting possible train derailments, a crude oil train derailed in Virginia. Governor Andrew Cuomo said, “Earlier today, I wrote a letter to President Obama urging the federal government take immediate […]
Simone Mair, an O&R Customer Service Systems Analyst who spent 167 hours volunteering her own time last year in support of not-for-profit organizations, including the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center, today was honored with Con Edison’s prestigious “Living Our Values” award. Consolidated Edison, Inc., O&R’s parent company, created the annual award 21 years […]
To to the Editor, On February 13, 2014 at about 9:30 p.m. our business West Rock Tennis and Multisport Complex was demolished by a roof collapse. Over 40,000 square feet of our roof collapsed during a severe winter storm which produced snow, rain and sleet to the whole northeast. Thankfully, we closed the business in […]