COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert confirmed Tuesday the season’s first human case of West Nile virus in a county resident. The patient is over the age of 50 years and tested positive for the illness based on clinical symptoms and preliminary laboratory findings. The individual was hospitalized September 6 […]
NEW CITY – Valley Cottage residents woke on the morning of September 21 to find their cars had been used by an unknown assailant or assailants for some late night target practice. The suspect or suspects responsible hit 12 cars on Sedge and Ridge roads with what was most likely a BB gun overnight, according […]
DA’S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Monday announced that Juan Perez-Coira (DOB 09/07/70) of Spring Valley, New York, was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison after a bench trial that convicted him of: Two counts of murder in the second degree, class “A” felonies One count of attempted […]
PERSONNEL AND FUNDING ISSUES COULD GO UNRESOLVED BEYOND SIGN DATE BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Sympaticare, the company that plans to lease and eventually buy the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care facilities, might not be ready by the stipulated contract date of September 30, according to CEO Shalom Bronstein. Bronstein, who provided an […]
NEW CITY – A suspicious man reportedly accosted two Clarkstown teens by claiming to be a police officer, according to Clarkstown Police. The incident occurred at around 3 p.m. on September 10 when two 14-year old boys were approached by car while they wre walking along Goebel Road near Scher Couty in New City. The […]
Unique Occena, 51-years-old, a local landscaper as well as comedian known by the stage name G-Unique, died suddenly on Thursday when he was struck by a fallen tree limb. At approximately 1:15 p.m. the Clarkstown Police Department responded to Addison Boyce Dr. in New City for a report of a man struck by a fallen tree limb. […]