Local residents have the unique opportunity to hear directly from regional County Executives during the Annual County Executive Forum on Tuesday, June 9. The event, which is sponsored by the Palisades Institute, will take place via Zoom because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Three local County Executives are scheduled to participate in the forum: Rockland County Executive […]
By Gale Pisha When a state law is passed, it’s the job of state regulators to enforce it. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which became law in 2019, commits New York State to net zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Its targets are that 70 percent of the state’s electricity must come from […]
By Joel Grossbarth A federal judge has reversed a jury verdict in favor of Rockland County in a suit brought by 16 Rockland County probation officers. Judge Kathryn H. Vratil granted the probation officers post-trial request for judgment notwithstanding the jury verdict in favor of Rockland County. The lawsuit alleged that Kathleen Tower-Bernstein, Rockland County’s […]
By Keith Shikowitz After many court cases, newspaper and television media stories and governmental hearings, the years long saga plaguing the residents of North Wayne Ave in West Haverstraw with regard to the porta potty company Johns to go has finally ended. North Wayne Ave has been plagued by a stink residents state, from the […]
By Keith Shikowitz There’s a saying the charity begins at home. That is not always the case. Sometimes it begins in the community and extends back to the home. On Tuesday May 12, in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic shutdown, Caribe Tapas Restaurant, in the Village of Haverstraw, in conjunction with the Rockland Universal […]
BY DIANE DIMOND On the evening of May 14, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, James Fairbanks went to the home of Mattieo Condoluci and shot him dead. Condoluci, 64, was a twice convicted pedophile, and Fairbanks, 43, had spent years working with troubled kids in the Omaha Public School system. After the body was discovered, the […]