Spring Valley’s Memorial Park was awash in blue and red on Sunday as members of Rockland’s Haitian community gathered to celebrate their heritage and denounce alarmingly racist rhetoric coming from Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance. Organized in part by Carl-Hennrey Joseph a former trustee of the Village of Spring […]
On October 4, Rockland for Ceasefire hosted a vigil at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Nyack commemorating the more than 40,000 Palestinians that have been killed over the course of Israel’s war with Hamas. Israel’s retaliation in the Gaza Strip was launched in response to a devastating terrorist attack on the Jewish state perpetrated by the […]
On Monday, October 7, at 12:10 p.m. the Jewish Community Center of Rockland joined fellow JCCC’s across North America and Jewish organizations worldwide in a silent moment of reflection honoring those lost during the 2023 terrorist attack in Israel a year previously. Many local officials issued statements of solidarity with the Jewish community, including County […]
Allies of former Representative Mondaire Jones, the Democrat nominee for New York’s 17th Congressional District, have filled suit against Anthony Frascone, a third party candidate who has made no apparent effort to campaign for office. Six plaintiffs, including election lawyer Keith Corbett — who successfully had independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. thrown off the […]
Lawrence Garvey, Chairman of Rockland’s Republican party has threatened to sue Clarkstown’s leadership. On September 20, Garvey filed a Notice of Claim with Clarkstown indicating that he was preparing a suit that would accuse Town Supervisor George Hoehmann, Town Attorney Kevin Conway, Finance Director Colin Schmitt, Representative Michael Lawler (R, Pearl River), and the Town […]
Voters in the Clarkstown Central School District will head to the polls on October 8 to consider a $110 million bond proposal. The referendum, if approved, would address facility upgrades in all nine elementary schools and the Birchwood School in West Nyack. With an average building age of 61 years, the district has reviewed all […]