A.G. SCHNEIDERMAN’S “OPERATION GAME OVER” CONTINUES WITH THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL SEX OFFENDERS PURGED FROM ONLINE GAMING PLATFORMS

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 […]

Stony Point’s Assemblyman-Elect James Skoufis Takes Oath of Office

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 […]

History Matters in Clarkstown

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 […]

Rockland County Legislature Votes to Override Executive’s Budget Veto

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 […]

GAS PRICE FALLS AS CHRISTMAS APPROACHES

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 […]

SOUTH CAROLINA APPOINTS ONLY BLACK U.S. SENATOR

Tea Party Republican Tim Scott is first black senator from Dixie since Reconstruction-era; historic story muted by agenda-driven media This week saw the appointment of Congressman Tim Scott to the vacant U.S. Senate position in South Carolina, left by the departure of conservative Republican Jim DeMint, who took a job leading the Heritage Foundation think […]