NEW CITY, NY – A citation for numerous violations of the Rockland County Sanitary Code has been issued to the owners of a Spring Valley house that was heavily damaged by fire this week, according to Rockland County Executive Ed Day. The Rockland County Department of Health inspected the home at 42 Prospect Street  hours […]
BY BARRY WARNER Rockland County Fire Explorer Post 44 at the Fire Training Center in Pomona is a program for youngsters between the ages of 14 and 21. It simulates situations that are experienced in the fire services of the United States. The drills consist of various training scenarios ranging from first aid to structure […]
The Rockland County Volunteer Firefighters’ Association held its annual scholarship night July 14 by awarding three $1,500 scholarships at the Hillcrest firehouse on Route 45 in Hillcrest. The applicants had to be sons, daughters, grandsons or grandaughters of an RCVFA member. The scholarships are named for RCVFA past president Stuart Gates who presented the […]
Helen Hayes Hospital has announced the appointment of Victoria Lent, M.D. to its medical staff. Dr. Lent will serve as Director of Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation at the physical rehabilitation hospital in West Haverstraw. Dr. Lent joins the hospital from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where she completed her fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine. Prior to that, she completed her internship […]
PEARL RIVER, NYÂ July 25, 2017Â — What do crime scene blood-spatter and high-tech robots, Game Theory and Fibonacci Numbers and the Sparkill Creek all have in common? They are all just part of the course work in an innovative summer science camp program for highly motivated area middle school students at St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) […]
BY TOM WALSH