The Biloxi City Council voted 6-0 this January to rename “Great Americans Day” to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But, technically, if you live in almost any other part of the country, that day already is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “Great Americans Day” was a state-named holiday that caused a large amount […]
BY KATHY KAHN BaMar in Stony Point, a manufactured home community on the town’s coastline battered by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, is still the site of 78 remaining homesteads. A packed audience filled Stony Point Center on Thursday, January 26, to learn what options would be available to them through the Governor’s Office of Storm […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown revealed Tuesday that it has apparently attracted one of America’s largest data centers to locate in Orangeburg, bringing a huge tax ratable to the town while also facilitating the demolition of more than 50 abandoned buildings at the town-owned former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus. It’s a […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Grace Vanderwaal and family have proven they have no intention to forsake their hometown fans. Since winning America’s Got Talent and releasing her debut album, Grace has continued to make local appearances, most recently at the County Executive Ball at the Pearl River Hilton. She sang the national anthem and met with […]
Republican Chris Day has officially announced his candidacy for the 2017 Orangetown supervisor race. He is the prohibitive favorite, although Democrats are making noise that Thom Kleiner will triumphantly return to politics to fight for the position. Day, who grew up in Clarkstown and moved to Orangetown with his wife and young children three years […]
WHY DID THEY SPY? Emails between former Clarkstown detective and Rockland County Intel Unit member Stephen Cole-Hatchard and his underling Kara Donahue show a curious interest in the social media postings of local citizens, the Rockland County Times has learned. Donahue sent Cole-Hatchard a 13-page email using a town email account on Dec. 11, 2015, […]