BY BARRY WARNER Carol Baxter, a Palisades resident, has been willing to step forward and make a difference in the lives of others for many years. As president of the Palisades Community Center, Carol is overseeing a restoration master plan of critical repairs to conserve the 1870 historic former schoolhouse building and make it accessible […]
A former Pop Warner football coach who police said ordered a 13-year-old to dispose of contraband during a police pursuit that ended in a car wreck, pled guilty to heroin possession charges this week. Theodore Holmes, 50, of Middletown, NY, pled guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony. He will be sentenced in August. Authorities […]
Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann and Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan announced the town’s recognition of National Police Week this Wednesday. On Sunday, May 15, 2016, the Town’s flags were flown at half-staff in honor of those officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Other towns have also recognized law enforcement […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT This writer, as well as most readers are familiar with the IRS hoax in which a so-called representative of the IRS telephones the resident in their home about a lawsuit about to commence against them by the IRS unless they make immediate payments to avoid this lawsuit. Most individuals by now […]
Two more names will be added to the Rockland County Police Memorial during a remembrance ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 22, in front of the County Courthouse on Main Street in New City. Deputy United States Marshal Zacarias Toro and New York City Police Department Lt. Luis Lopez both responded to the World Trade […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Rockland County executive Edward Day and the Historical Society of Rockland County honored several county residents Sunday at the 26th annual Historic Preservation Merit Awards dinner. The event was held beneath a giant tent erected on the front lawn of the society’s New City headquarters and museum at 20 […]