PRESS RELEASE – Well-water located near the Rockland Fire Training Center was recently tested for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) at the direction of the state Department of Health. This testing was part of the New York State Water Quality Rapid Response Team’s state-wide efforts to identify and test regulated water systems near […]
BY GEORGE DACRE A reprise of the play “A Clean Shoot” about a fatal police officer shooting that producers claim led to racial profiling by police is set for Friday, February 3 at 8 p.m. at Shades Repertory Theatre in Haverstraw. It will be a benefit for the Martin Luther King Jr. multipurpose center in […]
BY JEREMY MOONEYHAM Many were on hand for the North Rockland Chamber ribbon cutting ceremony at Catch on the Hudson, 16 Front St. in the Village of Haverstraw last Saturday. Haverstraw Mayor Michael Kohut was among those at the celebration. Owner and Chef Steve Lauterbach grew up in New City and had worked in some […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Once again here in Rockland we have a solution that is needlessly becoming a problem. The solution: we have successfully negotiated a contract with sheriff deputies who have been working without one for six years that is fair to them and fair to the taxpayer. The problem: some in […]
STATEMENT BY ASSEMBLYWOMAN ELLEN JAFFEE I stand with Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, and my Democratic colleagues in opposition to President Trump’s discriminatory executive actions and to his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, 10th US Circuit Court Justice, to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Gorsuch’s rulings do not support equality and civil rights for […]
PRESS RELEASE– The conservation so passionately called for by Rockland County Legislator Harriet Cornell and other local water stewards may soon be a reality following a draft order by the Public Service Commission concerning a rate hike request by Suez Water. The PSC last week decided not to accept a three-year joint proposal that would […]