With George Hoehmann Supervisor, Town of Clarkstown Today, across our county, our state and our country, in towns much like our own, people gather to remember September 11, 2001—one of the most terrible days in the history of our country. Sixteen years have passed since that day, but none of us will forget where we […]
Disability rights groups applaud today’s New York Court of Appeals unanimous ruling announcing that “we reject plaintiffs’ argument that an individual has a fundamental constitutional right to aid-in-dying . . . . We also reject plaintiffs’ assertion that the State’s prohibition on assisted suicide is not rationally related to legitimate state interests.” Not Dead Yet […]
BY JOE KUHN At the end of summer, full of underwhelming and underperforming rehashes of decades old properties, Andy Muschietti‘s “It”’s biggest shock lies not in the film’s scares so much as it’s quality. “It” is one of the very rare remakes that not only improves upon the original source material, but also brings new […]
Orange County Legislature votes to allow Kiryas Joel referendum to ‘secede’ from Monroe BY KATHY KAHN By overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all-Satmar Hasidic town. Speaker after speaker filled the County’s Emergency Services Building on […]
The People to People food bank in Nanuet benefitted from the desire of a group of Pfizer employees in Pearl River to have a different kind of teambuilding activity. As a result, 12 Pearl River scientists spent part of an afternoon unloading a truck of food supplies and stocking shelves and refrigerators at the food […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day joined family members and residents to remember the people of Rockland County who were killed 16 years ago in the Sept. 11 terror attack. “We are here because we are fulfilling the promise we made that we will never forget what happened on Sept. 11 2001,” the County Executive said […]