To the Editor, June has been an interesting month for Hi-Tor. Three articles in different local newspapers detail conflicts between the Hi-Tor Board of Directors and the volunteer group Rebuild, which has vigorously been dedicated to raising funds for a new animal shelter for the past two years. The current Hi-Tor BOD president claims Rebuild […]
Open Letter from Rocklander to Governor Cuomo & Commissioner King: Thank you for your recent decision assigning a state fiscal monitor, Hank Greenberg, to the East Ramapo Central School District. The situation for the public school children is dire. Besides two public schools (Colton & Hillcrest) being closed and sold/rented while enrollment has actually been […]
Announcement from Chris Day campaign for Congress Chris Day: “I’m very proud that the Rockland County Building and Construction Trades Council, an association of private sector local unions from Carpenters to Steamfitters to Electricians and everything in between, saw fit to give me their endorsement for the election this November. “The leadership of this group […]
BY DIANE DIMOND As the coroner’s van took away one of the bodies, I walked toward the bloodied sidewalk outside Nicole Brown Simpson’s condo. I’ll never forget what I saw that day. Law enforcement had come and gone and left behind only some strips of yellow police tape. It might have been 20 years ago, […]
BY DIANE DIMOND News Announcer: “There’s been another school shooting. This time at the Troutdale High School in Oregon, about 16 miles east of Portland.” I don’t want to write about this. It feels like screaming into the wilderness with no one listening. And I feel silly now admitting that I really thought things would […]
BY J. MICHAEL BARRETT Iran recently flight-tested two long-range ballistic missiles, ominously undermining ongoing nuclear negotiations with the West. North Korea is hardly backing off its nuclear and missile developments, either. The Hermit Kingdom recently conducted a third nuclear test and has restarted a major uranium enrichment facility. More ominously, the Heritage Foundation states that […]