Mar 2-8, 2017Â The JCC-Rockland will be hosting the ReelAbilities Film Festival next week, bringing together the community to promote awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities. – All films will be shown at JCC Rockland – All screenings are wheelchair accessible – All screenings are $10 […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown is slowly but surely edging toward construction of a new town hall to replace the 57-year-old crumbling structure now in use in Orangeburg, but details on the replacement structure remain few and far between. At its last meeting, the Town Board voted unanimously to hire a […]
FROM EIR Now that Rep. Marcy Kaptur has reintroduced her Return to Prudent Banking Act into the Congress, a return to Glass-Steagall banking separation is back on the agenda. The number is HR 790, and it has been referred to the House Financial Services Committee. There are currently 32 sponsors. Activists have begun again to […]
PRESS RELEASE– Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty on February 16 announced that it achieved record sales in 2016 and sold more luxury, single-family homes in New York’s Rockland and Orange counties and nine Hudson River towns than its competitors. Home sales recorded by the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors’ multiple-listing service, combined with non-MLS transactions, show […]
Ramapo DWI with Child in Back Seat On February 16, the Ramapo Police arrested a 39-year-old New Hempstead woman for driving while intoxicated with a child in the back seat (Leandra’s Law). She was also charged with larceny and aggravated DWI. The Ramapo Police were investigating a larceny at a local pharmacy in Airmont. Officers […]
To the Editor, The new proposal for a data center at Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg is an enormous potential victory for Orangetown. It must be approved without delay by the town. But it’s not enough to approve this project and the zone change to a data center/office park zoning for that parcel. Orangetown needs to change the […]