The year is 1972 and this writer, complete with a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from St. John’s University believed herself ready, willing and able to take on the world. And then the news of the scandals at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, N.Y. broke in the news for all the world to […]
Last Friday at RCC, President Donald J. Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, which was accepted on his behalf by his mother Allison Crowther. The award was a complete surprise, and presented on the anniversary of Crowther’s story breaking with the New York Times on Memorial Day, 2002. The Presidential Medal […]
Rockland Resident Lt. Col. Thomas Danas of Pomona, NY served as the Grand Marshall at the second largest Memorial Day Parade in the country, held in Douglaston, NY. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Evangelos Danas served in the United States Air Force for nearly 42 years, in both an active and reserve capacity, and as a noncommissioned […]
Last Friday, I had the career-expanding opportunity to see the president in person as a member of the press, thanks to the Rockland County Times. As a reporter who graduated college last year with a degree in journalism, I can tell you that this was the equivalent of my own personal Superbowl. The frenzy started […]
Orangetown PEARL RIVER: The Michael Salyer House, The Spy and the Traitor The André – Arnold Affair Day Trip June 13th The Historical Society of Rockland County presents, THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR: The André – Arnold Affair Day Trip. Saturday, May 9, 2026. 8:45AM-3:30PM. (Additional dates scheduled from July – October)! Step into one […]
For the first time since Gerald Ford’s visit to the Rockland County Courthouse in 1976, a sitting U.S. president has visited Rockland County. Friday, May 23rd, saw current president Donald Trump hold a rally in Rockland County at the RCC fieldhouse in Ramapo. Doors to the event opened at 12:00, with thousands of people from […]