To the Editor, During a 30-year period, as a social studies teacher at North Rockland High School and a part-time adjunct instructor at various local colleges, I taught my students to accept their responsibility to help enrich their community through participation in bettering it. Voting is an avenue of achieving competent leadership. It requires doing […]
Dear Friends, Due to the recent overwhelming reactions and feedback regarding Common Core, I will be joining with several of my colleagues on the Assembly Education Committee to hold a forum dealing with concerns expressed by educators, parents, and other stakeholders regarding the implementation of the new curriculum based on Common Core standards. I am […]
To the Editor, Preserve Ramapo has been asking the town of Ramapo and the Ramapo Local Development Corporation for their year end financial statements since the summer and we have been told repeatedly that they are not yet available. Just another St. Lawrence lie. On October 15 they were released to the national site that […]
BY DENISE HOGAN Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women, killing more women than breast cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cancer combined. November is Lung Cancer Awareness month. Not many people know this and it often doesn’t receive press, except for the obituaries, but as a survivor I am very much […]
To the Editor, Basically what Rhodes is trying to do in his rambling letter that claims the bloc vote will ditch St. Lawrence and back Koplen is to scare Preserve Ramapo voters into thinking Koplen has an edge over Chris. It is only to boost motivation for his line. In addition, this would make Koplen […]
To the Editor, Re: “Orangetown ponders tax cap compliance” article by Robert Knight – several corrections are needed. My proposed budget is under the tax cap because I am committed to obtaining tax relief for town residents, and because we can indeed save money through a smart combination of budget cuts, efficiencies, delayed capital spending […]