FROM GAS BUDDY Average retail gasoline prices in New York have risen 28.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.76/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York on Monday. This compares with the national average that has increased 23.8 cents per gallon in the last week to […]
Board of Trustees hosting free reception September 14 RAMAPO – The public is invited to welcome the new President of Rockland Community College, Dr. Michael A. Baston, at a reception Thursday, September 14 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. The RCC Board of Trustees is hosting the free event, to be held in the Atrium of […]
PRESS RELEASE—During a session of the Ramapo Town Board last night, members approved he rehiring of Scott Shedler as Town Assessor. A member of the Executive Board of the New York State Assessors Association, Shedler has more than 30 years as an assessor—including more than two decades of serving as Ramapo’s Town Assessor until 2016. […]
Keith Cornell, candidate for Rockland County Surrogate Court, has released the following statement: “I have become aware that certain elements in our county have been issuing bigoted and anti-Semitic statements using social media and excerpts from a local newspaper regarding my opponent in the race for surrogate. “I am denouncing this action in the strongest […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Let’s talk about the U.S. prison system, shall we? By that I mean the whole shebang: prisons run by the federal government, state jails, local jails and juvenile correctional institutions. And let’s toss in immigration detention facilities, military prisons and the 76 jails on Native American lands. All together, the United States […]
PHOTOS BY AARON MOELLER BY DYLAN SKRILOFF MARLBORO – About 500 music lovers camped out on makeshift fairgrounds setup at the Hampton Rd., Marlboro property of “Big Lee” Mazzola for the eighth annual Mazzstock festival last weekend. Hundreds of other attendees came and went over the course of the three-day festival. The Hudson Valley’s annual […]