Goal is to provide citizens with the tools they need to be ready and able to help their families and neighbors during emergencies PRESS RELEASE FROM GOVERNOR CUOMO Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week announced that the Citizen Preparedness Corps Training Program will take place on Saturday, February 8 in Rockland County at North Rockland […]
From the New York State Department of Transportation New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Commissioner Joan McDonald announced this week that six public hearings will be held in March regarding plans for improving passenger and freight rail service on the Empire Corridor between New York City and Niagara Falls. The sessions, which will provide […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Suffern – The Squire’s Gate community in Suffern saw very good news this week as it both received additional flood remediation support from the state and received a postponement on an anticipated flood zoning change. NY Rising will give Suffern $3 million in reconstruction aid out of funds designated for the Lower […]
Fears bridge will collapse BY JANIE ROSMAN Is the Tappan Zee Bridge safe? Absolutely, the Thruway Authority said. No way, Manhattan construction attorney Barry B. LePatner contradicted. “I try never to go over it, except if somebody kidnaps me and drugs me,” LePatner told WCBS 880′s Wayne Cabot last January. Fear of crossing grips him so […]
Clarkstown school district voters OK bond issue in record turnout BY BILL DEMAREST CONGERS – Anxious Congers residents who have been fighting to save their local elementary were relieved last Tuesday night when a Clarkstown school district public vote overwhelmingly approved a $6.5 million bond issue to repair the aging Congers Elementary School. The school […]
By Jeannine Rippa On Thursday morning, Jan. 30, 2014, Rockland County Executive Ed Day was named principal for the day of St. Paul Catholic School in Valley Cottage, NY. Ed Day visited with the children in almost all of the classrooms. As principal, Ed Day made an announcement, on the loud speaker to […]