Rockland Community college is preparing to train a new generation of emergency medical technicians. In response to a nationwide shortage of health care professionals, RCC, the Workforce Development board of Rockland County, and Rockland Works, have joined forces to create a program that will fast track qualified candidates to fill those vital positions and provide […]
Police have arrested and charged a Queens man in the hit-and-run killing of Juan Alberto Germosen, a resident of the Green Hills Estates for Adults. The 82-year-old senior was crossing Route 9W in the early morning hours of Tuesday, November 23 when he was struck by a light-colored Ford Explorer. The driver took off. Surveillance […]
A few weeks ago I was a panelist on Baseball Night in NY on SNY, and we were all doing an off season fantasy draft for the Mets. I had the first pick, and naturally it was an easy call. Go get Max Scherzer. As easy of a call as that might have been, I […]
Six firefighters have been injured while containing an inferno that engulfed the Pearl River Shopping Center and is still partially burning at time of publication. At around 12 P.M. on Sunday, a fire that broke out at RISE (Rockland’s Indoor Shooting Education) kept firefighters from two dozen fire and EMS departments busy all day and […]
Sisters Vittoria Valentin and Gabriella Cosentino first noticed something different about their father, Bruno Cosentino, about nine years ago. “It started right around the time he was about 61. I was at the dinner table with him, and he asked me to pass him the salt, and the salt was right in front of him […]
This is part two of a several part series depicting the life, events and wisdom of local Civil Rights heroine, Dr. Frances Pratt. Dr. Pratt, of Nyack, sat down with The Rockland County Times to share her rise from a child growing up in the segregated south to the first African-American head nurse at […]