Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco made national headlines when on January 4 he told the media his correction officers at Rockland County Jail had received taunts from inmates who now knew exactly where they lived thanks to the Journal News gun map. Falco told the Rockland County Times that inmates do not have computer access, […]
It could have been a better 150th birthday year for St. Peter’s as the oldest school in Rockland County received the bad news that it is slated to be closed. However, supporters have not given up, as St. Peter’s School in Haverstraw has crossed the critical $500,000 mark in their fundraising efforts to save the school. School […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The former site of the Stony Point Stop & Shop on South Liberty Drive will become the new site of an Aldi Supermarket as soon as the summer of 2013, according to Stony Point Town Supervisor Geoffrey Finn. Finn stated that the supermarket, which does not have an exact opening date as […]
On Friday night, January 4, around 8:15 p.m. a SWAT team raided an address at the Barnaby Square Co Ops on Main Street in Garnerville, a witness reported to the Rockland County Times. Haverstraw Police confirmed the tip, and that drugs were part of the arrest, but Lt. Martin Lund said the department could not […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Orangetown Democrat Chris Smith believes one way to shrink government costs is to eliminate your own position. Smith is running for the office of Orangetown receiver of taxes on the plan that he’s the man to help eliminate the position. He is supporting a referendum that residents and town board members are […]
Rockland County’s Biggest Natural Disaster BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The most deadly natural disaster ever to strike Rockland County was commemorated Sunday in Haverstraw when more than 50 local residents gathered for the annual memorial service for those killed in the infamous Haverstraw Landslide of 1906. A total of 19 people […]