Your weekly forecast by Zachary Jacomowitz Hello, Rockland County! I hope you have had a great week, including safely enjoying Monday’s solar eclipse! I’m about to give you the forecast for the final week of August, and, consequentially, the final week of Meteorological Summer, which began back on June 1. Meteorological Fall begins on September […]
BY MARC MOSS The Maureen Porette for County Executive campaign has provided the Rockland County Times “something” as an explanation for their late pre-primary campaign filings. Whether that “something” is accurate, we do not know. The Democratic Party county executive candidate Porette’s legally required August 11 financial filings had not been posted on the New York State […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY Louis Jerome Adler, 75, and his wife, Dorothy Adler, 72, were both arrested on 44 counts of cruelty to animals on Friday, August 18. The arrest follows Hudson Valley Humane Society (HVHS) seizure of 21 live dogs, mostly Huskies or Husky-mixes at their 13 Chestnut Street home in Stony Point. The outrageous discovery […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY RAMAPO- William Weber (R ) and Michael Specht (D) are now the front runners for becoming the next supervisor of the Town of Ramapo. Michael Specht is presently Ramapo Deputy Attorney and in charge of handling zoning and permits of the town. AttorneyScott Goldman previously opposed Specht for the democratic nomination; Goldman has since pulled out […]
BY AMAYAH SPENCE Because of its effect on wildlife and property value, littering has become an issue that the Clarkstown Town Board has taken into major consideration, by making two of the three hearings at the recent town hall in regards to the issue. One of the major possible solutions the Board has is to […]
FROM GASBUDDY- Average retail gasoline prices in New York have not moved in the past week, averaging $2.45/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. The national average also has not moved  in the last week, remaining at $2.34/g, according to GasBuddy.com. Including the change in gas prices in New York […]