BY GEORGE HOEHMANN Supervisor, Town of Clarkstown It has been an honor serving as your town supervisor over the last 21 months and I’m humbled that you have bestowed upon me the privilege to serve you for another term. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for the trust you’ve placed in me. I […]
BY DIANE DIMOND It’s one of those criminal cases that makes you shake your head in disbelief. Within a few weeks, 42-year-old Tyra Patterson will be released from an Ohio prison after serving 23 years for a murder she is now widely believed not to have committed. She will have spent more than half her […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Two seismic events shook Rockland County this week and both have profound impacts on our shared future. The first I’m sure you’ve heard: The people of this county honored me by overwhelmingly voting to give me a second term as County Executive. The second might have slipped by without […]
BY DIANE DIMOND It’s one of those criminal cases that makes you shake your head in disbelief. Within a few weeks, 42-year-old Tyra Patterson will be released from an Ohio prison after serving 23 years for a murder she is now widely believed not to have committed. She will have spent more than half her […]
To the Editor, After reading a Letter to the Editor in a local town newspaper by yet elected Piermont Trustee Ivanya Alpert, I couldn’t help but laugh at her attempt to infer that Ed Day is somehow racist or anti-Semitic because of the factual concerns in this county and his saving this county from bankruptcy. Her […]
To the Editor, I had some hope for the new secretary of Veterans Affairs. I base that on the fact that he was a doctor, and had worked for the VA system. Now it has all too quickly become business as usual. After six months on the job the Secretary took a 10-day vacation to […]