BY DIANE DIMOND Consider the fates of two prominent Americans, comedian Louis C.K. and former President Bill Clinton. Both have been accused of serious sexual misconduct. But unlike the comedian, whose recent tiptoe back into show business has been met with howls of protest, Clinton continues to enjoy public adulation. In this #MeToo era of […]
By Joe Kuhn The town and village leadership of Orangetown and Nyack were blindsided Wednesday when Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary announced that it has applied to the State of New York to operate solely from its campus in Lower Manhattan. Starting in the fall of 2019, all Rockland County campus academic programs of the […]
By County Executive Ed Day Earlier this week we received more good news in respect to the 2019 Proposed Budget. The New York State Comptroller’s Office found that, “the significant revenue and expenditure projections in the proposed budget are reasonable.” As one of the conditions of our deficit bond we must submit our proposed budget […]
By Supervisor Michael B. Specht Being my very first column for this newspaper, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dylan Skriloff and the Rockland County Times for allowing me to address issues of importance for the Town of Ramapo and all of Rockland. Last week, on October 24, Americans were shaken to […]
CORRECTION – [This article originally reported the wrong winner of the Orangetown clerk race] BY KATHY KAHN Governor Andrew Cuomo and his running mate, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, easily won victory over Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro Tuesday. A blue wave that did not quite materialize nationally did, in fact, swamp downstate New York. […]
Deadly Car Accident on Palisades Pkwy A Spring Valley woman was killed in a car accident on Thursday Nov. 1 after her husband’s car hit a deer and rolled over. Miriam Kofi, 50, was pronounced dead at Nyack Hospital after the accident near Exit 10 on the Palisades Parkway. The couple was driving down the […]