O&R PRESS RELEASE A financial reversal, an unexpected medical problem, an accident or any other kind of emergency could happen to any one of us. That’s why the emergency help that The Neighbor Fund, which has re-opened for the winter heating season, has offered the community for nearly 30 years is so vitally important. The […]
Five Additional Gaming Companies Agree To Remove More Than 2,100 Registered Sex Offenders’ Accounts Press Release Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman this week announced that over 2,100 additional accounts of registered sex offenders have been purged from online gaming platforms as part of “Operation: Game Over,” a first-of-its-kind initiative to protect children from predators on […]
Before a crowd of nearly 200 family, friends, supporters, and neighbors, James Skoufis took the oath of office for the 99th Assembly District this past Sunday; Town of Woodbury Judge David Levinson presided over the swearing-in at Palaia Winery. Skoufis, whose Assembly District encompasses the Town of Stony Point in Rockland County, and the towns […]
BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL Recently at a town board meeting in Clarkstown, The Historical Society of Rockland County spoke about a property purchased by the town of Clarkstown in September of 2011. This property located on nine acres of land on Germonds Road in West Nyack is known as the Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen House. “This house is […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland County Legislature voted by a significant margin to override County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef’s veto of the amended 2013 budget at its meeting on December 18. Of the 17 legislators, only Legislators Frank Sparaco, Nancy Low-Hogan, and Chris Carey voted against the override, a significantly higher tally that the seven […]
Average retail gasoline prices in New York have fallen 5.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.72/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. This compares with the national average that has fallen 8.0 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.25/g, according to gasoline price […]