The Rockland County Times has obtained pre-absentee ballot district-by-district vote tallies for the county executive and Surrogate Court justice primaries. The two hotly contested elections display the degree to which the Rockland electorate has coalesced into “Ramapo bloc vote” vs. “Anti-Ramapo bloc vote” camps. The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not […]
[UPDATE- Day said he will not challenge the results in court. He referred the Tom Sullivan has pulled ahead of Ed Day in the primary race for county executive following the count of 168 absentee ballots. Officials told the Rockland County Times that the tally currently is 647-615. County Executive Day led 574-520 after the initial […]
CRIME REPORT SUBMITTED BY CPD The Clarkstown Police Department arrested a 24-year-old male from Pomona, NY Sunday following a domestic incident that occurred earlier in the night, where the suspect allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend and another male in their New City residence. On September 17 at approximately 11:20 p.m. the Clarkstown Police Department responded […]
The story of local hero, Welles Crowther, was told in a world premiere film – “Man in Red Bandana” – in Suffern. Crowther, a 24-year-old from Upper Nyack, died during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 after helping at least 20 people to safety from the South Tower, including a woman who he carried […]
The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI) announced this week that it secured $20 million in federal grant funding to support Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) research. Five multi-year grants were recently awarded to three research scientists at the Institute’s Center for Dementia Research (CDR). These awards include a prestigious Program Project Grant awarded to […]
BY JOE KUHN PEARL RIVER- It’s somewhat ironic to characterize a mutual fund, an investment program that typically buys and sells major Wall Street stocks, as a small local business. After all, it’s hard to reconcile the mom and pop ambience of a locally based family business with the high stakes world of stock trading. […]