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 […]
Americans from coast to coast are still in mourning following the shocking murder of 26 people, including 20 first graders, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the normally quiet town of Newtown, Connecticut on Friday. PHOTOS BY RICK SAMUELS […]
Rockland County organization secures $7,724 Press Release The Preservation League of New York State recently announced a grant to the GARNER Arts Center, formerly GaGa. The League made a grant of $7,724 to complete a State and National Register Historic District nomination for the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center Complex. The Garner Print Works, now […]
Seven elected officials from Rockland County have been appointed the Mass Transit Task Force which is charged with studying ways to implement mass transit on a new TZ Bridge. The Rockland elected officials that are serving on the new panel are County Executive Scott Vanderhoef, Senator David Carlucci, Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN What’s nine feet tall and carved out of a 500-pound block of ice? The menorah lit at the Chabad Jewish Center of Suffern’s annual Chanukah celebration! The event, held on December 10 at the Suffern Community Center gazebo and led by Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, featured lighting of the unusually tall ice menorah. […]
The Haverstraw Brick Museum has announced the date of their annual commemoration of the Haverstraw Landslide of 1906. It will take place at the Brick Museum on Sunday, January 6, 2013, and the program will be led by Village Historian Stephen Cobb. On January 8, 1906, 19 Haverstraw residents lost their lives as their homes […]