Your weekly forecast by Zachary Jacomowitz Hello, Rockland County! I hope that your week has gone well. The area experienced its first frost of the season, but a pleasantly mild weekend is on tap. Let’s get right to the forecast! Friday: Mostly sunny skies with highs near 70° after a morning low near […]
PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY JEANNINE RIPPA At noon, on Wed., Oct. 11 Cardinal Timothy Dolan blessed the newly built prayer garden at St. Francis of Assisi, West Nyack.
BY BARRY WARNER Congers FD’s 1st Assistant Lieutenant Edward Mihalczo works under the direction of his department’s fire captain and is responsible for supervising the firefighters and fire engineers when working at a fire scene or other emergencies. “Ed is 30-years-old and joined our department in October 2009 soon after he graduated from college. Ed has […]
The Chamber Alliance of Rockland County has officially been born. The Alliance was created to bring together members of all the chambers in the county for networking, sharing of resources, educational opportunities, group savings, and more. So far six Chambers are participating including Nanuet, North Rockland, New City, Nyack, Pearl River, Piermont and Suffern. […]
Critical safety and consumer improvements resulted from the Oct. 3 national conference call of consumer advocates, which included Ombudsman Alert BY LOUIS ALPERT Ombudsman Ombudsman Alert’s last article, published on Oct. 12, described the emergency national conference call by a coalition of leading safety and consumer advocates, which called on the US Senate Commerce Committee […]
BY SHERLY JOURDAIN On Aug. 11, 2017, Pres. Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national state of emergency. The Center of Disease and Control reports three out of five overdose deaths are opioid-related, and an alarming estimate of one in every four persons who are using opioids for pain management will struggle with addiction. In […]