Candidate for the 97th Assembly District Joseph Chabot has called on his opponent Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee to donate the $3,800 she has received from the Friends of Sheldon Silver in 2008 to a charity that benefits the students of the East Ramapo School District. Sheldon Silver, the former longtime speaker of the Assembly, was convicted […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert this week remind residents to protect themselves by getting a flu vaccine. The flu is a serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to […]
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. on Wednesday designated Nanuet Senior High School as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2016. Nanuet Senior High School is being recognized as an “Exemplary High Performing School” as measured by performance on assessments referenced against national norms. Nanuet High is among 329 public and private elementary, middle, and high schools […]
The 2016 Helen Hayes Hospital Classic Race on Sunday, October 16 is less than a month away and the West Haverstraw-based physical rehabilitation hospital is gearing up for a very special new take on the inspirational annual event. Presented for the first time in partnership with the Town of Haverstraw at Bowline Point Park/Peck’s Pond, […]
Students at the Rockland BOCES Hilltop School in Haverstraw have started the new year with creativity. Art instructor Erin Girling led a school-wide exploration into the work of influential Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky. Students and staff each designed and created one square with an eight-inch circle, based on Kandinsky’s Concentric Circle color […]
The story of one of Rockland’s old-time family lines In March of 1638, a small Swedish ship the “Kalmar Nyckel” dropped anchor at “The Rocks” (Wilmington, Delaware.) On board was a 15-year-old Dutch boy named Gerrit Hendricksen. Although without absolute certainty, local historians believe this Gerrit is the first Blauvelt in America. He is the […]