PRESS RELEASE– The conservation so passionately called for by Rockland County Legislator Harriet Cornell and other local water stewards may soon be a reality following a draft order by the Public Service Commission concerning a rate hike request by Suez Water. The PSC last week decided not to accept a three-year joint proposal that would […]
PRESS RELEASE – Rockland County has been awarded $1.2 million state grant to encourage women to breastfeed, County Executive Ed Day announced today. The county was one of only 6 organizations in New York awarded the grant by the state Department of Health. “We want to increase both the number of new moms who are breastfeeding and […]
Andrew Verhille will have his day in court, but the court of public opinion is unlikely to be kind to the 25-year-old New Windsor resident due to a mugshot that uncannily matches the charges against him. The young man, who lists North Rockland High School as his alma mater on his Facebook page, was involved in a […]
Circumstances allow Legislator Grant and Democrats to renew budget battle with Day BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Did you think the arduous county budget battle of 2016-17 was settled, with County Executive Ed Day and six of seven Republican legislators narrowly defeating the Democrats on the strength of Day’s veto? Think again! Both sides had been aware […]
BY KATHY KAHN While fanfare was humming in the Nation’s capitol, locals from Rockland, the Hudson Valley and Bergen County had a celebration of their own at the Mahwah Sheraton on January 20. More than 150 guests, many in formal attire, watched Trump’s inauguration replayed and joined in toasting the outcome of the election. After […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH After getting hit with a string a bad news ranging from arrests of top elected officials on Federal corruption charges to the state monitoring its building department, the Town of Ramapo got a little good news, thanks to an appeals court in Brooklyn. The Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed a ruling that […]