Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef announced last week that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has opened a Disaster Recovery Center in Rockland County at Provident Bank Park in Pomona to assist victims of Hurricane Sandy. “This is a great opportunity for Rockland residents to find out about disaster assistance from knowledgeable FEMA personnel,” said Vanderhoef. […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Obama gets four more years; Democrats win GOP seats in Rockland, in 2012 you can go ahead and paint the county blue Rockland County and America has gone through yet another historic election. This time President Barack Obama became America’s third consecutive two-term president. Locally, there was even more good news for […]
The Rockland County Times today introduces our College Sports Notebook, compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, who is a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) and former president of the International Boxing Writers Association (IBWA). Maturo urges anyone connected with the collegiate sports scene to keep him […]
BY KATHRYN BAUMGARTNER As Sandy was bearing down on Rockland County Saturday October 27, the Nyack Chamber of Commerce hosted its 25th annual Halloween Parade. The festivities began at 3 p.m. in the village’s municipal parking lot on Main Street with live music from various artists. The different groups played both original songs and covers […]
Nov.13 Presentation at Town Board A special presentation will be made to the Orangetown Town Board on Tuesday, Nov. 13 on the status of a replacement bridge and flood mitigation project along Oak Tree Road in downtown Tappan. The public information session is expected to begin about 7:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the Orangetown […]
Rabbi Noson Leiter, president of the activist group Torah Jews for Decency and Rockland County resident, has caused waves in the past by associating natural disasters with the LGBT movement and abortion. Prior to New York passing “marriage equality” last June Leiter editorialized that Noah’s flood was provoked by same-sex relations and natural disasters can […]