Governor Andrew M. Cuomo officially declared the commencement of the 2016-17 skiing and snowboarding season this week with the opening of Whiteface Mountain on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, followed by Gore and Belleayre Mountains on Friday, November 25. Every winter season, skiing and snowboarding at New York’s 51 mountains attracts millions of visitors and […]
B.R.i.D.G.E.S., a non-profit organization in New York dedicated to providing advocacy and leadership for people with disabilities, has an immediate opportunity to secure two wheelchair accessible vehicles if they can raise the remaining funding. Each van is equipped for seven passengers, including two individuals in wheelchairs. These vans will widen the reach BRiDGES can provide and greatly improve capacity to provide […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- County Executive Ed day held a press conference at the Allison-Parris County HQ Building to announce ongoing litigation against two businesses that defaulted on big dollar small business loans guaranteed by Rockland taxpayers. Pal Auto body in Haverstraw and still-to-be completed community center at 11 Remsen St in Monsey have […]
In Rockland County, one in 10 people are living in poverty, many don’t know where their next meal will be coming from. From Nov. 1 through Nov. 21, PostNet in Suffern, a local printing and shipping small business located at 74 Lafayette Ave., hosted a food drive to collect dry and canned food items for […]
BY KATHY KAHN Rockland’s Legislature seemed caught between a rock and a hard place as it tried to grill county auditor Bob Bergman on “missing” paperwork that Leg. Aiden Wolfe said had been requested repeatedly. Bergman says he’s been trying to gather more information on possibly mishandled and misdirected funds, noting Community Development Block Grant information […]
On Friday, November 18, North Rockland Teachers’ Association Representatives drove a caravan of seven cars and vans to the North Rockland Food Pantry to deliver over 10,000 pounds of food items, 24 turkeys, three hams and over $200 in gift cards. The teachers and students of the North Rockland Central School District ran a Thanksgiving […]