FROM CPD On January 21, 2017 at approximately 4:15 a.m. the Clarkstown Police Department responded to 102 Lake Road in Congers for a report of a man with a gun. Responding officers observed five men having a verbal dispute. Upon interviewing all parties involved it was determined that the five men had known each other and were engaged […]
PRESS RELEASE – Rockland County Executive Ed Day will attend a meeting Thursday with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in an effort to save a shuttle bus that takes veterans to medical appointments at health centers in Montrose, the Bronx and other locations. Day will speak at a Town Hall meeting with the U.S. […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The owners of the property of the former Fiesta Cancun restaurant on Rt. 9W in Stony Point have torn the century-old building down after years of it sitting unoccupied. Stony Point Supervisor Jim Monaghan said the town had no control over the property owner’s decision. The owner told the town he is […]
NY Supreme Court Justice Hon. Alan D. Scheinkman dismissed Former Rockland County Board of Elections Commissioner Lou Babcock’s suit seeking court intervention on his ouster as BOE commissioner. Babcock claimed the Republican Party inappropriately removed him via dictate of the Executive Committee instead of allowing the full Republican Committee to vote. Hon. Scheinkman said the […]
At Wednesday’s board meeting Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and the town board voted Councilman Yitzchok Ullman as deputy supervisor, ending Councilman Patrick Withers two-year stint in the position. Withers has butted heads with St. Lawrence at times. He stood alongside former Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman, who passed away in an apparent suicide Friday, in calling […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY According to legal insiders and www.nycourts.gov, newly-elected County Court Justice Larry Schwartz will not serve in Rockland County. Court overseers have chosen to place Schwartz across the river in Westchester instead. Judge Rolf Thorsen, who had previously been transferred from Rockland to Westchester, apparently has been transferred back as he is listed […]