Unsung Heroes Christina Honan and Denise Green: Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) Volunteers

Unsung Heroes Christina Honan and Denise Green: Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) Volunteers

BY BARRY WARNER The Jesse J. Kaplan School in West Nyack offers a stimulating environment for students ages 5-21 with autism, cognitive disabilities, medical fragility and/or multiple disabilities. Students reach their potential in a school that blends high educational standards, nursing services and therapies. Principal Gianluca Di Muccio stated, โ€œOur Rockland BOCES Jesse J. Kaplan […]

Readers Sound off on the Death Penalty

Readers Sound off on the Death Penalty

BY DIANE DIMOND Whenever I write about serial killers, guns and the death penalty, my inbox blows up. Last week’s column about convicted murderer Dylann Roof and America’s policy of capital punishment — public support for it, the costs associated with it and its usefulness in deterring other criminals — definitely stirred passions. Some readers […]

Ramapo and Montebello warned of possible Moody’s downgrade

Ramapo and Montebello warned of possible Moody’s downgrade

Moody’s Investor Service, a credit rating agency, put the Town of Ramapo and Village of Montebello on notice requesting their more current financial details from the towns. A Jan. 3 notice put these towns and six other municipalities in New York on notice. According to the notice if the information isn’t submitted within 30 days, […]

Indian Point Closure Strikes Another Blow to New York

Indian Point Closure Strikes Another Blow to New York

To the Editor, For years the Cuomo administration; state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; and their hysterical and retrograde antinuclear allies, including Riverkeeper, have waged a shameless campaign of fear, loathing, andโ€”in the fashion of the dayโ€”fake news against Indian Point. โ€œNot safe!โ€ they cried, in determined contradiction of the repeatedly rendered expert opinion of the […]

GEORGE ZAYAS JOINS HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL AS SAFETY/SECURITY MANAGER

GEORGE ZAYAS JOINS HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL AS SAFETY/SECURITY MANAGER

Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw, NY is pleased to announce the appointment of George Zayas to the position of Safety/Security Manager. Mr. Zayas has served Rockland County for over 35 years as a law enforcement and fire and emergency services professional and will direct the hospitalโ€™s Safety Department, overseeing life safety, security and emergency […]