On Thursday, January 19, Nyack Mayor Jen White and staff members from the offices of Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee participated in a tour of the newly opened HRHCare Community Health Center, located at 84 North Highland Avenue in Nyack. Led by HRHCare President and CEO Anne Kauffman Nolon, the tour gave the […]
Rockland Center for the Arts announced its latest exhibition: “Fragments of Imagination: A Vignette of Repsychling.” This is the fourth stop of Repsychling, the third major exhibition of An Inclusive World Project from COPE NYC, on view February 19 – April 23, 2017 at ROCA in West Nyack. Repsychling, curated by Vida Sabbaghi, introduces artists who explore […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES What if the federal government wanted to give away money, but no one wanted it? For the first time in recent memory, the Orangetown Town Board has decided not to seek any federal funding under HUD’s Community Development Block Grant Program. The town is apparently not officially withdrawing […]
BY PHILIP C. ROVENTINI CPA There are two education credits (dollar for dollar reduction of tax) that are available to taxpayers who have qualified education expenses for themselves and for their dependents. One is the American Opportunity Credit. This can be a credit of up to $2,500 per eligible student. It is available if the […]
The world-renowned osteoporosis research team at Helen Hayes Hospital, New York State’s premier physical rehabilitation facility, has been awarded a five year $2.1 million research grant by the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will fund a study evaluating the use […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA M. Night Shyamalan has had an interesting career as a director, to say the least. He rose to fame in the late summer of 1999 with his supernatural drama, “The Sixth Sense,” and then followed up the next year with his superhero thriller, “Unbreakable.” Shyamalan’s next movie arrived with his sci-fi drama, […]