Streit’s Matzo moving production to Rockland After much speculation as to their new location, Streit’s Matzo seems to have settled on Rockland County as the site for a new commercial bakery. The company, based in the Lower East Side, was initally rumored to be planning a move to Tarrytown. Instead, both Streit’s Matzo co-owner Aaron […]
BY BARRY WARNER Barbara Noyes earns this week’s title of unsung heroine for her work devising and organizing the annual Penguin Plunge in Nyack. The Penguin Plunge, a 501C3 charity, is the brainchild of Barbara, a South Nyack Police Officer, and is administered with support from local resident Mike Lynch and many others. Each year […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Elaborate ceremonies marking the completion of the project were held Friday, including the cutting of a red, white and blue banner, politicians glad-handing a smiling crowd and the driving of two Tappan fire engines across the new structure, as if to demonstrate its strength and durability. It […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN The fish pathology lab at Cornell University determined the primary species of dead fish recently found in the Hudson River were Atlantic Menhaden and were “killed by natural causes, most likely a virus, and not anything associated with the bridge project,” DEC spokesperson Wendy Rosenbach told the Rockland County Times. Rosenbach said […]
Rockland Debates 2016 on Monday hosted its first fundraiser toward the goal of hosting the “Olympics” of national politics–a presidential debate–at Rockland Community College. RCC is one of 15 schools nationwide competing for the coveted spot. “We deserve the opportunity,” said Tim Englert, a member of the Rockland Debates 2016 team, who sees the college’s […]
Other news: New school board member, new law firm and no state monitor BY JANIE ROSMAN The heated July day was tantamount to the fuming anger of protestors gathered a second time at the New City home of ERSCD Superintendent Joel Klein, demanding his resignation. “We need to keep attention on the misdirected school board,” […]