BY ROBERT KNIGHT City Editor Hundreds of Clarkstown and Rockland County residents attended the annual 9-11 ceremony outside Town Hall Monday, many weaping as familiar names of deceased residents were read aloud, each followed by a mournful ringing of a memorial bell by a police department honor guard. A total of 82 names were read and […]
Helen Hayes Hospital will host its 117th annual Honors Assembly on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. in the hospital’s atrium. The event recognizes the outstanding achievements of the physical rehabilitation hospital’s patients over the past year and will honor patients from Rockland, Orange and Putnam Counties who have overcome incredible odds during their rehabilitation journey, inspiring others along the way. The Honors Assembly […]
Deaths due to opioid overdose are in decline in the United States according to recent medical surveys with the overdose antidote naloxone (Narcan) credited as a main cause of this positive trend. State Senator David Carlucci is one of the New York lawmakers leading the Narcan awareness effort. Carlucci has supported legislation that made the […]
The People to People food bank in Nanuet benefitted from the desire of a group of Pfizer employees in Pearl River to have a different kind of teambuilding activity. As a result, 12 Pearl River scientists spent part of an afternoon unloading a truck of food supplies and stocking shelves and refrigerators at the food […]
Rockland County Executive Ed Day joined family members and residents to remember the people of Rockland County who were killed 16 years ago in the Sept. 11 terror attack. “We are here because we are fulfilling the promise we made that we will never forget what happened on Sept. 11 2001,” the County Executive said […]
Time for Reimer to return BY KATHY KAHN There is a movement growing to return Melissa Reimer-the woman who brought down the house of cards Christopher St. Lawrence built-back to her rightful place as fiscal supervisor of the Town of Ramapo. Her lawyer released a letter this week requesting her return and a public movement has […]