During the past eleven months the food pantries and feeding programs throughout Rockland have seen an overwhelming increase in the amount of people that need assistance with food. Many have reported serving triple the amount of people since the pandemic started, as well as hundreds of new families. In response to this crisis, the […]
By: Jennifer Korn With the ERCSD (East Ramapo Central School District) board elections underway, the NYWFP (New York Working Families Party) has announced its endorsement of five community activists and public school parents. “It’s high time East Ramapo students have community-rooted champions like these five women on the school board,” said NYWFP State Director Sochie […]
Tuwanna Anderson understands the horrors of gun violence. On Feb 14, 2010, Tuwanna, who became a mother at the age of 14, lost her firstborn son, Malik James, in a tragic shooting that redefined her existence. Wrought with pain and devastated by her loss, she grappled, with depression and struggled to find meaning in her […]
On Wednesday, Jan 20, New York State police arrested three Spring Valley teenagers for illegal possession of a firearm. Teyyvon Epps, Regine Durandisse, and Jimmy Palma, were at a residence in Ramapo when they were taken into police custody. All three suspects are 19 years old and reside in the village of Spring Valley. […]
By Kathy Kahn Ramapo residents’ pleas to halt zoning and building code changes to the northeastern quadrant of the town fell on deaf ears last Wednesday, Jan 20, during a hastily arranged Zoom meeting. After all was said and done, the Town Board unanimously voted to continue a process it began in 2018 that […]
A report posted at abc7news.com recently explored the high costs of police misconduct — such as brutality, riding roughshod over civilian rights, using excessive force, making false arrests, and violating people’s civil rights. The cost of settling police misconduct lawsuits ran over $300 million in fiscal 2019. Taxpayers bear the costs of police misconduct. New […]