To the Editor: Several entities and organizations regularly publish rankings of school districts involving individual district achievements. The rankings include: Best School Districts, Best Teachers, Best High Schools, Safest School Districts, etc. These rankings occasionally cause confusion among parents, students and property taxpayers with regard to how their respective school districts are actually performing. The […]
By Supervisor George Hoehmann If you think finding consensus in today’s America is difficult, we should all consider and be encouraged by the experiences that shaped us before we were a nation. The path to American Independence was hardly an easy one. The debate that took place among the Founders and the colonist population centered […]
By County Executive Day As many of you know on Saturday, June 30th there was an incident of hate on a Transport of Rockland bus in Orangetown. But that phrase, “incident of hate” doesn’t fully describe what happened, a woman hurled disgusting racial and ethnic epithets at fellow passengers on this bus. I refuse to […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Ombudsman The Ombudsman Alert would like to add his further note to last week’s article: ‘Signs’ of the Times Don’t Bode Well for Current Governor: The piece demonstrated the corruption that surrounds Cuomo’s office and our state’s growing deficit, as well as the spending of millions of dollars on erecting […]
By Supervisor George Hoehmann In the last two weeks we have unveiled significant upgrades to our town’s swimming facilities at Germonds Pool and Lake Nanuet Park. At both aquatic facilities our bath houses and lifeguard buildings were in dire need of repair with structures over 40 years old and well beyond their useful lives. It […]
In June of 2012, Bryan Johnson, a 26-year-old from Westchester County drowned to death in the waters off City Island in a boating prank gone wrong. Police said Johnson jumped off the boat and went for a swim, but the boat pulled away without him. When his friends returned they could not find him. Johnson’s […]