New City, NY, – Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announce the #YouthCanGetIt2 Movement Challenge to engage Rockland County youth in sharing their own style of social media messaging to educate their peers about COVID-19 prevention. Weekly through the month of May, Rockland youth in Grades 7 – 12 may enter […]
Photo by Tony Piscopinello NANUET, NY – On Mother’s Day, Red Lobster located in Nanuet saw massive lines outside. It has been reported that the Clarkstown Police Department responded to the restaurant to make sure social distancing was taking place. The long long lines were reported for many hours.
By John T. Preston According to the Milken Institute, over 70 treatments for COVID-19 are already in clinical trials or progressing toward clinical trials. Several of the inventions behind this flurry of activity resulted from government funded research in U.S. universities. This public-private cooperation is our best hope of defeating the virus. It’s also the […]
Nice-Pak, a leading producer of wet wipes, including disinfecting wipes for consumer markets, announced it is among the first to test its products for efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The company, which is headquartered in Orangeburg, is partnering with testing laboratory Microbac for this project. Nice-Pak’s disinfectant products currently sold under the Nice ‘N […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announce an amendment to the ‘Commissioner’s Standing Isolation Order’ (isolation order) related to COVID-19 to separate all sick people from healthy people and prevent the spread of COVID-19.  This order directs residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 or have symptoms indicative of COVID-19 to remain in isolation at their residence (or other […]
(New City, NY) – Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann announced the re-opening of Congers Lake walkway effective 10am, Monday, May 11, 2020.  The park will be open 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. The Congers Lake walkway will be open for walking only, social distancing and walking directional signs will be posted throughout the walkway, which will be […]