Assemblywoman Jaffee, Legislators, Direct Care Workers Call for Wage Increase, Salary Parity for OCFS Child Welfare Direct Care Workers

Assemblywoman Jaffee, Legislators, Direct Care Workers Call for Wage Increase, Salary Parity for OCFS Child Welfare Direct Care Workers

Site Significant crisis in attracting and retaining a qualified direct care workforce JAFFEE PRESS RELEASE Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern), Chair of the Assembly Children and Families Committee, on Tuesday held a press conference urging the governor and the Division of Budget to support children, youth, the direct care workforce, and voluntary not-for-profit agencies that care […]

HAVERSTRAW LEGISLATORS BRING SANITY ON THE SAIN BUILDING

HAVERSTRAW LEGISLATORS BRING SANITY ON THE SAIN BUILDING

To the Editor, As a Haverstraw resident it was delightful to see the two Haverstraw Democratic legislators, Michael Grant and Jay Hood, change their opposition and vote to approve the resolution to designate the Sain building property surplus. Also, Harriet Cornell, Democrat from West Nyack, voted for approval along with the two Republican legislators. This is […]

What’s Happening 6/15/17

What’s Happening 6/15/17

  BY GEORGE J. DACRE “Trayff” closes Sunday at Penguin Repertory Theatre on Crickettown Road, Stony Point. “Cobb,” the Ty Cobb story, opens June 30 and runs through July 23 (weekends). Contact penguinrep.org or 845-786-2873. Music Under the Stars at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, is kicking off the summer season Saturday, June 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Trophy Point Amphitheater. In […]

Final Rockland Shared Services Public Hearing on Thursday

Final Rockland Shared Services Public Hearing on Thursday

PRESS RELEASE– Rockland will hold the third and final public hearing on the County-wide Shared Services Initiative at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 15 at Dominican College. The state initiative calls upon the County Executive to come up with a plan to save property tax dollars by having municipalities and taxing districts share and centralize services. “The idea is […]

RAND COMMERCIAL NAMED RECIPIENT OF COSTAR POWER BROKER AWARD

Rand Commercial announced it has been named as a recipient of a 2016 CoStar Power Broker Award for Sales Transactions in Rockland County, Orange County, and Northern New Jersey (the former two regions are recognized by CoStar as being a part of NNJ). Rand Commercial was one of 20 honorees in this category. “CoStar is […]

Students from Suffern, Nanuet, Nyack honored in Environmental Essay Contest

Students from Suffern, Nanuet, Nyack honored in Environmental Essay Contest

PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day congratulated six students who won the 26th annual Eleanor Burlingham Earth Day essay contest in an awards ceremony Thursday. Five of the students wrote about recycling and one wrote an essay about a tree her grandfather planted in her backyard. The winners were: Ramapo Central’s Viola Elementary School […]