Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI) announced yesterday that Jennifer Laird-White will become the new director of Community Relations for the company’s Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission project. The Champlain Hudson Power Express Project is a completely buried, 333-mile HVDC transmission line that will be installed underwater and underground predominantly along existing rights-of-way, originating at the U.S.-Canada […]
As a former fellow elected government official for 44 years and a 50-year advocate/volunteer service provider to people with developmental disabilities, I respectfully request that you consider what might be a quixotic mission. In your elected position, you represent a county with an extraordinary legacy of human care. It began with the establishment, in our […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE A TOR bus traveling westbound on Route 59 at Smith Street in Nanuet on Wednesday at 2:15 p.m.began experiencing smoke coming from the engine compartment. There was no sign of a fire and no melting of any part of the bus. The Nanuet Fire Department responded, determined that it was a non-event […]
40 years after the summer of Son of Sam On August 10, 1977, police officers finally arrested David Berkowitz – a Yonkers man who would become infamous as the “Son of Sam.” Today marks the 40th anniversary of his arrest following the 13 people he shot at using his .44. Of those 13, six were […]
BY KATHY KAHN Unlike last month’s near-empty boardroom, the Town of Ramapo’s August 9 meeting drew many residents, mostly from the ultra-Orthodox community in Monsey, who are asking that two roads—Decatur and Herrick Avenues—be changed from two-way to one-way because both roads are congested with adults, children, cars and school busses. Apparently, many drivers disregard the speed […]
BY MELISSA LAMONTANARO Rockland County’s motion to dismiss a complaint filed against itself and Sheriff Louis Falco alleging politically retaliatation against corrections officers for publicly supporting Falco’s opponent Richard Vazquez in the 2015 Rockland County Sherriff’s election, was denied by the United States District Court, Southern Distict of New York on July 27, 2017. Plaintiffs John […]