Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert this week announced that free rabies shots (vaccinations) are available for cats, dogs and ferrets on Sunday, April 24, 2016, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Rockland County Fire Training Center, 35 Firemen’s Memorial Drive in Pomona. No appointment is […]
New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico resigns State Trooper Superintendent Joseph D’Amico resigned from his position abruptly on Friday, April 8. D’Amico served the NYPD and Albany for over 30 years. In his time as superintendent, D’Amico added 2,500 new employees, bringing staff up to 5,700, including 4,700 officers. A scandal circulated around D’Amico […]
Digital platform brings town budget data to the fingertips of the public The Town of Clarkstown now offers taxpayers an easy-to-access online library of budgetary and other governmental information thanks to the launch of the digital platform ‘Accountable Clarkstown,’ Town Supervisor George Hoehmann told the public on Wednesday. According to Hoehmann, who promised increased transparency during his 2015 campaign, the Accountable […]
Not many saw Donald Trump’s rise to frontrunner status of the GOP presidential nomination coming back in July. A political novice who had been a sometimes less than serious personality in his prior incarnation as reality star and tabloid headliner, Trump caught the entire GOP field sleeping as he found hot button issues in trade, […]
Senator Bill Larkin (R,C,I- 39th District) announced this week that he had secured $250,000 in state funding to help restore Stony Point’s historic Town Hall. The funding comes from a State and Municipal (SAM) funding grant and is one of several SAM grants that the senator has recently obtained for the region. “The historic Town […]
During the Roman Catholic Church’s “Jubilee Year of Mercy” the New York Archdiocese, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is holding a number of “Mercy Saturdays” throughout the area. The cardinal invites north Rocklanders and others to attend the upcoming Mercy Saturday on April 16, at the Salesian National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in […]