Putnam County will not be releasing records of pistol permit holders to Gannett’s The Journal News the Rockland County Times has learned. A press conference will take place on Thursday in Putnam making the announcement official. NYS Senator Greg Ball (Patterson – R, C, I), Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant and other officials will gather […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland County Legislature met for a special assembly on December 27 to approve tax and rent rates for 2013 and set effective dates for the abolition of certain positions, as outlined in the newly-passed 2013 budget. The Legislature approved the levying of tax rates for the county, towns, districts, and other […]
COMMUNITY VIEW BY RETIRED COP MARTIN DAVIN Recently the Journal News decided it was in the best interests of the public to publish not only the names but, the addresses, complete with a Google link, of the residence of each and every registered gun owner in Rockland and Westchester County. This was designed to serve […]
For the Rockland County area, weather forecasters are calling for three to five inches of snow beginning Saturday morning and lasting through Saturday evening or night. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory active from 8 a.m. Saturday morning through 6 a.m. Sunday morning.
Editors at Journal News taking heat from coast to coast for interactive map listing gun permit holders’ names and addresses. First Amendment protects local publication’s war against second amendment BY DYLAN SKRILOFF In the wake of the Newtown massacre, the bright lights at Gannett’s The Journal News decided it was high time to criminalize ordinary, […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES “Teaberry Port” Demolished, Historians Eye Saving Vanderbilt House Historians lost one historic house in Rockland County last week when the 240-year-old “Teaberry Port” was demolished, but they are now turning their attention toward saving the also threatened Vanderbilt House a few blocks away. Both early Dutch sandstone […]