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Car Salesman Dies after being shot at Youbs Auto Sales at 357 Route 59 A Middletown car salesman died after being shot multiple times over the weekend in Rockland County. On Saturday thirty-seven-year-old Joseph Youbens was working at Youbs Auto Sales, a used car business located at 357 route 59, at around 3:15 p.m. when […]

PRESS RELEASE: WRCR Launches GoFundMe Campaign to Return AM 1700 to the Airwaves 

PRESS RELEASE: WRCR Launches GoFundMe Campaign to Return AM 1700 to the Airwaves 

Garnerville, NY – Rockland’s only local radio station last week launched a GoFundMe campaign to restore its broadcasting tower. WRCR has been providing internet-only service on its website, www.WRCR.com, since August 2017, when the station lost the lease for its transmitter site in Nanuet, NY. WRCR AM 1700 launched at 10,000 watts in July 2015, replacing the old 500-watt station at […]

State Labor Department Releases Preliminary October 2018 Area Unemployment Rates

State Labor Department Releases Preliminary October 2018 Area Unemployment Rates

The New York State Department of Labor today released preliminary local area unemployment rates for October 2018. Rates are calculated using methods prescribed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The State’s area unemployment rates rely in part on the results of the Current Population Survey, which contacts approximately 3,100 households in New York State […]

Christopher St. Lawrence hit with harsh fine for `recurrent and egregious’ fraud

Christopher St. Lawrence hit with harsh fine for `recurrent and egregious’ fraud

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SOURCEMEDIA BY KYLE GLAZIER WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud case against the Town of Ramapo, N.Y., has concluded with a $327,000 penalty and lifetime ban from the muni market for the town’s former Town Supervisor, Christopher St. Lawrence.The SEC announced the end of the litigation Thursday following the decision […]

CARDINAL DOLAN VISITS FOR 150TH ANNIVERSARY MASS OF ST. CATHARINE

CARDINAL DOLAN VISITS FOR 150TH ANNIVERSARY MASS OF ST. CATHARINE

The closing mass of the 150th anniversary celebration of St. Catharine Church in Blauvelt was held Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. The guest of honor was Cardinal Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York. The reception was catered by DeCicco Family Market in New City and longtime proprietor Frank DeCicco was on hand.

Local cops increase patrol presence at houses of worship following Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Local cops increase patrol presence at houses of worship following Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

The Clarkstown Police Department is monitoring the active shooter incident at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. The department announced that it has increased patrol presence at all houses of worship throughout the town and will continue to receive information from State and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies. Police ask that residents call 911 […]