FROM RPD On Sunday, January 3 at about 8:50 p.m. the Town of Ramapo Police responded to a report of gun shots being heard in the area of Hempstead Rd. Responding officers arrived and found that an unknown subject had fired a bullet through a window of a home on Hempstead Rd. Several bullets had also […]
ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Town of Clarkstown will be holding its annual Town Board “Reorganization” meeting on Monday, January 4, 2016 in the Town Hall Auditorium. At the event, Supervisor–elect George Hoehmann, the 45th supervisor of the Town of Clarkstown, will deliver his inaugural address, where he will discuss his vision for 2016. Hoehmann told […]
Special Agents Joseph Lemm, Louis Bonocasa, Chester McBride, Michael Cinco, Adrianna Vorderbruggen, and Peter Taub were killed by a suicide bomber in a village near Bagram Air Base Afghanistan on Monday, December 21. Two U.S. Air Force Security Forces airmen who were with them were wounded in the attack. The remains of Lemm, a West […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week signed into law legislation to establish The Edward Hopper Citation of Merit for Visual Artists. The legislation, (A.2121A/S.4235A) sponsored by Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) unanimously passed both houses of the Legislature. Jaffee said, “I thank the governor; the bill’s Senate sponsor, Betty Little, chair of the […]
FROM CPD Clarkstown Police arrested 19-year-old Congers resident Jonathan Vilches for an alleged office break-in at 151 N. Main St., New City on Saturday, December 26 at 10:45 p.m. The victim of the burglary, a 71-year-old New City man, was at his home when a remote surveillance system motion sensor activated, notifying him of the disturbance at […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY-County Legislature Aron Wieder(D-Spring Valley) resigned as majority leader to dedicate himself to fighting NYS-appointed E. Ramapo monitor Dennis Walcott and his three-person team’s recent 19 recommendations to overhaul East Ramapo school district oversight on Thursday, Dec 17. Wieder, former E. Ramapo school board president and a leader in the close-knit […]