BY DIANE DIMOND Sometimes out of tragedy comes triumph. Such is the case for Julie Pendley of Fayetteville, Arkansas. In May, her cousin Ben Baber and his best friend Cody Parrick went missing. The two 20-year-olds had driven from their homes in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, to attend a concert in Pryor, about an hour-and-a-half away. That […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day In 1854, Dr. John Snow tracked down the cause of deadly cholera outbreaks in London to contaminated water and convinced local officials to remove the handle from a well’s water pump to end the threat. Fifty years later, an intrepid New York City Health Department epidemiologist named George Soper […]
Dear Commissioner Elia and Chancellor Tisch, Last week’s events at the previous East Ramapo Central School District board meeting truly underscore the need for New York State to finally take action and remove certain (if not all) board members from the ERCSD Board of Education. The board has shown time and time again that they […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Rockland County’s Office of Fire and Emergency Services this week took part in a scheduled exercise to test response plans developed to protect the public in the event of an emergency at Indian Point. The state-evaluated drill involved a fictitious radioactive emergency at the nuke plant and assessed the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND The world has gone all topsy-turvy. Citizens can no longer speak their minds and have conversations about differing points of view. Facts don’t seem to matter much anymore. And there seems to be this universally accepted idea that one must prostrate themselves while publicly apologizing if they utter something that might — […]
To the Editor, This morning I woke up and said to myself, Obama fooled enough Americans twice and got elected, now look at what we have: a county, Iran, that is the biggest promoter of terror, which our government has given a path to secure a nuclear weapon. I pray to God the voters see […]