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 […]
Parents of preschoolers have had to make some major adjustments since New York first shut down in March, 2020. Liana Sargsyan-Quinn was among them, with an added responsibility: she’s an essential worker who provides care for working parents’ toddlers. When Sargsyan-Quinn sought a preschool for her own first-born daughter and could not find a comfortable […]
A routine assembly in the town of Haverstraw took a nasty turn last week when a village resident publicly threatened a group of his fellow citizens. Rockland County Legislators Michael Grant and Jay Hood Jr. said the comments made during a public hearing on a proposed synagogue in Haverstraw were wrong and have no […]