To the Editor, The Champlain Hudson Power Express (abbreviated CHPE, pronounced “chippy”), is a 333-mile, 1000-Megawatt transmission facility to be built by Transmission Development Inc. (TDI). This proposed transmission facility would bring 1000 megawatts of electricity generated from Canadian mega-dams to Queens, NY, where it would power about 1 million homes. The project is touted […]
Your weekly forecast by Zachary Jacomowitz Hello Rockland County! It has been a wintry week with two systems during the past seven days. I hope everyone is recovering easily. Anyway, let’s get to the forecast to see if any more wintry weather is in the near future! Friday: Mostly cloudy skies with a few flurries […]
REPORT FROM STONY POINT PD Winfil Germosen, 28, of Tomkins Cove was arrested 2:57 a.m., Monday, March 5 on charges of assault in the third degree, disorderly conduct and harassment in the second degree. Stony Point PD reports that a town police officer was on stationary patrol on Route 9W in Stony Point when he observed the defendant arguing with a […]
DEC PRESS ALERT On Feb. 21, ECOs Corey Hornicek and Jon Walraven were on patrol in Rockland County when they observed two men accompanied by several young children fishing on a pier notorious for fish poaching. Almost immediately, the ECOs noticed a stringer hanging over the side of the pier. As the ECOs approached the […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week announced that 1 million people have registered to vote using the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles’ online registration process since 2012. Of the 1 million who have registered online, more than 450,000 were first-time voters. New Yorkers can easily apply to register to vote, or change their […]
BY CINDY TRILLO With the unemployment rate in Rockland County at 5% for 2017, it’s almost a whole percent higher than the national average of 4.1%. That means job seekers will need to work doubly hard in order to meet make the mark and qualify for an advertised position. But what can employers do to ensure they […]