BY SUPERVISOR GEORGE HOEHMANN Everyone agrees that killing a police officer is so abhorrent that it warrants the toughest penalties allowed by our criminal justice system — including the death penalty. Everyone, it seems, except for Governor Cuomo. As supervisor of Clarkstown, the town where the Brinks robbery and murders took place, I am outraged over […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Years before our nation was attacked on Sept. 11, there was a terror attack right here in Rockland. Oct. 20, 1981 – the day that domestic terrorists with a violent ideology that made sense only to them attacked was Rockland’s Sept. 11. Just like Sept. 11 changed our nation, […]
BY DIANE DIMOND As my father would have said about the year 2016, “So long, and don’t let the door hit you in the rump on the way out!” But I’m sure Dad would have used more colorful language. It was a confusing, divisive and extremely frustrating year, wasn’t it? We saw terror attacks on […]
To the Editor, Many thanks to the Rockland County Department of Health for shutting down the smoking room here at Spring Valley Rest Home, which is located in Nanuet. Before the Health Department closed the room, smoke would escape from the smoking room to the living room, which forced second hand smoke on the home’s […]
Dear Mr. Muir (Executive director of RECLAIM), I am writing as the village attorney for the Village of Montebello, having served in that capacity since incorporation on May 7, 1986. Given my service for over 30 years, and having all legal work leading to incorporation, it is fair to state that I am quite versed […]
My North Rockland friends, Last Monday, December 19, we said goodbye to my husband, Salvatore “Sal” Dapra. Our son Ken and grandson Aiden, Sal’s best buddy, mourn his loss very deeply. We cannot say enough about the kindness and caring that the North Rockland community showed to us and our extended family at T.J. McGowan’s […]