BY TIM MILLER Navy Specialist First Class A 2014 North Rockland High School graduate and Pomona native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason. Navy Seaman Diego Alonso is a deck seaman aboard the warship, based in Norfolk, Va. USS Mason is named after Secretary of the Navy John Young […]
PRESS RELEASE – Rockland is once again offering residents the opportunity to empty their medicine cabinets of unused prescription drugs before they fall into the wrong hands, County Executive Ed Day announced. Another National Prescription Drug Take Back Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27 at selected pharmacies in Rockland.  “This […]
PRESS RELEASE – This Saturday, October 27 volunteers will gather at Garner Arts Center at 10:00am to clean up the Minisceongo Creek, which runs throughout Northern Rockland and feeds into the Hudson River Estuary. The cleanup is the first opportunity to learn about the emerging Minisceongo Creek Watershed Alliance. In case of inclement weather, registered volunteers […]
PRESS RELEASE – County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Social Services Joan Silvestri announced that the County of Rockland will recognize November of 2018 as National Adoption Month. Each November, staff from the Rockland County Department of Social Services’ (DSS) Children’s Services Unit join with local Wendy’s franchisees to celebrate National Adoption Month to […]
PRESS RELEASE – The Office of Financial Aid at St. Thomas Aquinas College is offering two FAFSA Completion Workshops that are free and open to anyone in the community that wants to understand the financial aid process when applying for college financial assistance. “This is the College’s way of giving back to the community, near […]
Private brand items will contain no synthetic colors, artificial flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, MSGs or high fructose corn syrup  Stop & Shop today announced a landmark commitment to make the private brand products it provides to its customers cleaner and more natural by 2025. Stop & Shop will remove all of the following from all of its private brand […]