By Kathy Kahn After nearly five decades of supplying power to electricity-hungry New York City, Indian Point is scheduled to close down in April 2021. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given conditional approval to the sale of Indian Point to Holtec International, based in Jupiter, Florida. One of its affiliates, Holtec Decommissioning International […]
By: Keith S. Shikowitz On November 21, 2020 at different times during the day, the five towns of Rockland County are all giving away free dinner bags for Rockland’s Veterans. The meals are for veterans and their families as a small thank you for the sacrifices they have made for their country. A Veterans ID […]
By: Ella Coogan With 290 electoral votes and a popular vote lead of over 5 million, the Associated Press declared Joe Biden and Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris the winners of the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 7. Although votes for the presidential race are still being counted in Arizona, Georgia, and North […]
By: Jennifer Korn At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, nursing homes around the country went into lockdown to protect those most susceptible to the virus. Unfortunately, several reports suggest that the restrictions meant to safeguard the elderly have created a different problem: a new mental health crisis. In March, the Centers for Medicare […]
By: Joe Kuhn Rockland United, “a community of progressive activists” operating here in the county, gathered on Nyack’s Main Street last Wednesday to protest any attempt to block the counting of absentee ballots. The group expressed apprehension that both President Donald Trump and several candidates for state office had called for election officials to […]
By Kathy Kahn In the shadow of the Palisades Center, there’s a patch of hallowed ground on a hillside that’s been lovingly tended to for 170 years: Mount Moor Cemetery. It is the final resting place for black Americans who fought for this country from the time of the Civil War up to the Korean […]