Supervisor Alexander J. Gromack, Police Chief Michael Sullivan, and the Town Board announce the Town of Clarkstown will launch Ready Clarkstown. The Town has begun using Ready Clarkstown, an emergency notification system provided by Everbridge, the leading emergency notification system provider, to communicate with thousands of businesses and residents in minutes during an emergency. The […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The son of the late Josephine Carella, longtime town clerk of Haverstraw, told the Rockland County Times he is all in for a run to win his mother’s former seat in 2013. Bernard Carella said he learned a lot from his mother, believes she did an exemplary job as town clerk and […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Thiells United Methodist Church Pastor Reverend Jessica Campbell, in her pastoral letter this week, told a special story about a church in the Austrian Alps. It was Christmas Eve and the newly constructed Church of St. Nicholas in Tyrol, a village near Salzburg, was struggling with a broken church organ. The […]
Those Seeking “Sandy” Assistance Can Still Receive Help By Phone FEMA has announced that it will no longer be stationing representatives at the Rockland County Fire Training Center in Pomona to assist residents. Residents can may still apply online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov. or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362). In addition to individual assistance grants from FEMA, the […]
Congressman Eliot Engel announced that after 10 years of representing the people of Rockland, he is closing his office in West Nyack as of Thursday, December 27. Rep. Engel said, “It is with great regret that I am announcing the closing of my Rockland office. For 10 years I had the pleasure of representing most […]
PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef and David Freed, president and CEO of Nyack Hospital on Friday announced that the Rockland County Department of Health will transfer responsibility for the Prenatal Clinic to Nyack Hospital, effective January 1, 2013. “The New York State Department of Health has approved the transfer of services, and […]