Hundreds Attend Clarkstown 9-11 Ceremony

Hundreds Attend Clarkstown 9-11 Ceremony

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 TO HONOR LOCAL REHABILITATION PATIENTS – SEPT 19, 2017

HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL TO HONOR LOCAL REHABILITATION PATIENTS – SEPT 19, 2017

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 […]

CARLUCCI REMAINS OUT FRONT IN FIGHT AGAINST OPIOID EPIDEMIC

CARLUCCI REMAINS OUT FRONT IN FIGHT AGAINST OPIOID EPIDEMIC

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 […]

Rockland County Marks Sept. 11 with Memorial Service

Rockland County Marks Sept. 11 with Memorial Service

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 […]

YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN

YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN

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 […]