The Department of Social Services(DSS) has officially begun their 7th Annual Toy and Clothing Drive in preparation for the holiday season. It will run through Dec. 19, collecting various gifts for children of all ages in Rockland County. While DSS cannot directly give children holiday gifts, Commissioner Joan Silvestri works hard to make sure that […]
Irish-born singer and actor Ciarán Sheehan may have played one of the most iconic characters in Broadway history—the titular role of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera”—but make no mistake: the man is not that into musicals. Sheehan, who will be performing the concert “A Very Broadway Christmas” at St. John the Baptist […]
New York is set to be the first state in the Nation to implement an all-electric mandate for new school buses sold beginning in 2027, with all school buses electric-powered by 2035. This week, Governor Kathy Hochul announced the release of $100 million for electric school buses and charging infrastructure as part of the state’s […]
Remember the good old days of going to the video store to rent movies? Christopher Plummer, the director of Rockland Community College’s Cultural Arts Theatre and co-founder of the Rockland Shakespeare Company, sure does. The first ever VHS tape his mother bought him was “Back to the Future” (1985). “We were in the electronic […]
One of the county’s major thruways will be receiving a face lift courtesy of the state government. The state has recently allocated $100 million in funding to support the renewal of roadways impacted by extreme weather. The funding supports repaving projects at 66 locations, totaling almost 568 lane miles of pavement, and complements a record […]
Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) recently joined his Hudson Valley colleagues Pat Ryan (NY-18) and Marc Molinaro (NY-19) on H.R. 6356, the Hudson River Protection Act. This bi-partisan bill will prevent the construction of additional anchorages north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. The legislation became necessary after a recent Coast Guard information bulletin redefined the Port […]