Dear Jon, My soon-to-be 90-year-old mother recently re-told her story of how she and her girlfriend decided to borrow the family Studebaker and drive from Queens, NY across the country to California. They were 21-year-old women, driving across the country. It was 1956! When they arrived in Los Angeles they heard that Elvis Presley was […]
NYS Senator Pete Harckham commemorated Senate District 40 Hispanic Heritage Month at the Hendrick Hudson Free Library by honoring four outstanding individuals and one organization for their exemplary work in the community. The organization honored was Rockland’s own Proyecto Faro, or Project Lighthouse. This organization is an immigrant-led grassroots organization in Rockland County that […]
Balancing profits with being bad for people is an age old challenge for certain industries throughout history. Investors want a return on their money and businesses are geared to give the greatest return possible. Few business leaders have been able to successfully straddle the line, but it seems Instagram might just be the exception in […]
Harckham and Eachus speak on withheld transit funding “President Trump’s withholding of the needed $18 billion for vital New York transit projects will kill 95,000 jobs, cost businesses more than $87 million and rob the regional economy at least $19.6 billion,” New York State Senator Pete Harckham said. “The move will also deprive Rockland County […]
Every community needs a roadmap — a vision that guides where we’re going and how we want to get there. For Rockland County, that roadmap is our Comprehensive Plan, and right now, we’re in the process of updating it through an initiative called Envision Rockland. This plan will serve as a blueprint for how our […]
Hopefully, many of our residents are aware of a wonderful local not-for-profit organization called the Happy Jack Fund, founded by New City residents Steve and Eileen Doyle. The fund was created after Steve and Eileen suffered an unspeakable and devastating loss when their son, John Thomas, whom they called “Jack,” passed away at 9 months […]