1,000 per month ticketed for texting while driving

New York State announced this week that a new law to prevent distracted driving, has resulted in 118,757 tickets since July 2011 for using an electronic handheld device while driving. Governor Cuomo introduced legislation to strengthen enforcement of texting-while-driving violations in June 2011, and signed the new penalties into law in July 2011. The legislation […]

GLC SPONSORS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LUNCHEON

Phillip E. Goldstein, managing partner of Goldstein Lieberman & Company LLC, announced today that the 18th largest certified public accounting and business advisory firm in New Jersey and the largest firm of its kind in the Hudson Valley region was a proud sponsor a luncheon featuring Caren S. Franzini, chief executive officer for New Jersey […]

NANUET RESIDENT PROMOTED IN STUDENT EXCHANGE

ISE, International Student Exchange, a leading non-profit high school exchange program with a Regional Office based in Babylon, New York, is pleased to announce the promotion of Nanuet resident Scott Walters to the position of Area Representative for the Rockland/Bergen region. Scott brings experience and remarkable enthusiasm to his new position of working with ISE […]

THE MASS OF REMEMBRANCE

Two years after the earthquake in Haiti, where 316,000 people died, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 made homeless, St. Peter Church and School remembered and prayed with survivors, family and friends in Rockland County. A day following the two year anniversary, January 13, 2012, St. Peter School’s children offered “The Mass of Remembrance” for the victims […]

Crime Reports–2/16

RAMAPO CRIME REPORT Laurence Faust, of 3 Terry Lane, apt. 29, Monticello, NY, was charged with DWI (Leandra’s Law), Endangering the Welfare of a Child, DWI, DWI (per se) on 02/04/12 after Ramapo Sergeant Gumbs, while on patrol, stopped to investigate a hazardous traffic condition on New Hempstead Road. Upon further investigation he and PO […]