By County Executive Ed Day This week we faced another new challenge as part of our ongoing measles outbreak. A group of parents from the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge filed a lawsuit and sought an injunction against the orders imposed by our Commissioner of Health to keep their unvaccinated students out of […]
Beth Blecker, RFC, Named to Investment News Women Adviser Summit Board [NANUET, NY] Eastern Planning Inc., (www.easternplanning.com) is pleased to dedicate the first Monday of each month for Meditation Monday. Starting Mon., Mar. 4, the half-hour yoga and meditation class will begin at 8:30 a.m. It will be preceded by a financial-health question-and-answer session and […]
By Supervisor George Hoehmann We can almost taste spring in the air. With longer days of daylight and warmer weather here and there. Even though the snow hasn’t all melted, our Highway Department is preparing to start the annual yard waste pick up program. Every year during yard waste and loose leaf pick up season, my office receives many […]
County Executive Day announced his official opposition to the “10-Point Plan to Transform and Fund the MTA” introduced by Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The plan as it now stands is severely lacking and would only compound the problems faced by Rockland County commuters. Statement from County Executive Day Follows “Rockland […]
PRESS RELEASE Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty on March 8 announced that MaryBeth O’Hara has joined the luxury brokerage firm as an associate broker. Prior to joining Ellis Sotheby’s, O’Hara managed a real estate office in Orange County, New York, coaching and training agents. She has been in the real estate business for 25 years, specializing in […]
A surprise “wildcat” strike by dozens of Rockland TOR bus drivers stalled the county’s public transportation on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, TOR bus system operator Transdev reached an agreement with its employees and service was restored. The strike was not officially sanctioned by the transportation union, but participating workers got their point across – earning […]