All in With John Jastremski After a picturesque March day, the feeling of Spring and the Baseball season is most certainly in the air. The feeling of optimism that is usually shared this time of the year has turned downright rotten, justified negativity in Yankees land. It’s impossible to have a worse Spring Training than […]
We recently cleaned out my aunt’s apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan. She had lived there for over 60 years. She had many interesting items. Unfortunately, we did not have a lot of time to empty the apartment, as it was already rented out and everything had to be out by the first […]
Happy Birthday Cardinal Dolan Recently, Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan visited Clarkstown, specifically St. Francis of Assisi Church in West Nyack, to offer Mass. It was far from the first visit of His Eminence to our town and prompted me to recall a bit about this man who serves as the tenth Archbishop of New York. […]
I am incredibly proud to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rockland County’s Office for the Aging (RCOFA), a department that has been dedicated to enhancing the lives of our older adults for half a century. This milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on the tremendous impact RCOFA has had on our senior community. At […]
To the Editor, The following was sent to our esteemed Congressman, Michael Lawler (not my favorite person in the world). Dear Mr. Lawler, I fear that you, sir, are a coward, a liar and a fraud—and a hypocrite as well. You boldly claim in your newsletter that you will never vote for (or support) reductions […]
Dear Editor I was disappointed to read United States Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins’ shortsighted plan to defeat bird flu, which is running rampant across the country. The strategy includes $500 million for biosecurity measures, $400 million in aid to factory farms, and $100 million for chicken vaccine research. The package amounts to a $1-billion bailout […]