Rockland Homes for Heroes is a not for profit charity chartered to build and operate apartment homes for homeless veterans. When speaking with the RCT, John Murphy, president of Rockland Homes for Heroes stated,” our goal is to help end veteran homelessness”. Their latest endeavor is the development of new housing at Camp Shanks, a […]
The students returning to Suffern High have had a stressful first month, punctuated by two seperate false reports of attacks against the school. On September 21, the Ramapo Police Department (RPD) was notified of a security threat involving explosives at Suffern Senior High. As the Suffern Central School District initiated its evacuation protocol, the RPD […]
The Rockland County Office of Buildings and Codes (OBC) is issuing a $23,000 fine to Schloima Koppel, the same landlord housing 31 people in a New City single-family property, resulting from 32 violations found at Koppel’s Spring Valley rental at 8 W. Funston Street. The inspection uncovered 8 bedrooms and 16 beds, in what should […]
Rockland Green has terminated its short-term contract with Hi -Tor Animal Care Center, Inc., as of September 21, 2023. The move comes in the wake of accusations that shelter staff did not properly respond to an outbreak of the Feline panleukopenia virus, which new management claims resulted in the death of 35 cats. Rockland Green, […]
Friday night September 8, “Dracula” opened at the 76 year old fine arts Elmwood Play house in Nyack Earlier in the week this playhouse hosted a blood drive on September 5, and prior to the show there was a thunderstorm making it a perfect night for the opening of Michael Edan’s Adaptation of Bram Stokers […]
This week, Nathaniel Sommer and his son, Aaron, each were sentenced to probation in connection with the fire they started that destroyed the Evergreen Home for Adults in Spring Valley on March 23, 2021. Nathaniel Sommer, 72, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of second-degreemanslaughter, one for fire Lieut. Jared Lloyd and one for resident […]