BY KATHY KAHN BaMar in Stony Point, a manufactured home community on the town’s coastline battered by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, is still the site of 78 remaining homesteads. A packed audience filled Stony Point Center on Thursday, January 26, to learn what options would be available to them through the Governor’s Office of Storm […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown revealed Tuesday that it has apparently attracted one of America’s largest data centers to locate in Orangeburg, bringing a huge tax ratable to the town while also facilitating the demolition of more than 50 abandoned buildings at the town-owned former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus. It’s a […]
Republican Chris Day has officially announced his candidacy for the 2017 Orangetown supervisor race. He is the prohibitive favorite, although Democrats are making noise that Thom Kleiner will triumphantly return to politics to fight for the position. Day, who grew up in Clarkstown and moved to Orangetown with his wife and young children three years […]
WHY DID THEY SPY? Emails between former Clarkstown detective and Rockland County Intel Unit member Stephen Cole-Hatchard and his underling Kara Donahue show a curious interest in the social media postings of local citizens, the Rockland County Times has learned. Donahue sent Cole-Hatchard a 13-page email using a town email account on Dec. 11, 2015, […]
Christopher Smith, an experienced marketing professional and former political candidate, will become the next associate publisher of the Rockland County Times. The position has remained vacant since former associate publisher Dylan Skriloff purchased the newspaper and became owner and publisher. Smith is currently employed by Verizon Wireless, where he is ranked in the top 10 countrywide for consumer sales. He has […]
Rockland Man Accused of Swindling Union Funds A Tappan man was arrested and charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Enrico Rubano, 48, was accused of swindling a union’s health and retirement funds of $3.4 million by through phony invoices in a kickback scheme. Rubano was arrested on Jan. 19 along with […]