A 5K Fun Run sponsored by Senator David Carlucci will be held next Thursday, May 19 in support of the Larissa Karasik Foundation. Sadly, last May in Warren County, New York, Felix Festa Middle School student Larissa Karasik was killed when a vehicle driven by a drunk driver drove through a stop sign and crashed […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Pearl River area residents who have long opposed a planned 24-hour warehouse and storage facility in a wooded area of the hamlet center were dismayed last week when the Orangetown Planning Board voted 4-1, with one abstention and one absence, to grant final site plan approval to […]
Jasper is a 4-year-old female DSH who was surrendered to the shelter due to personal problems of her owner. She is blind in one eye and might do best in a home with teens and older because she is on the small and independent side and needs some time to warm up to people. But […]
Actor Danny Glover spent time this week visiting Rockland BOCES students and faculty at The Hilltop School in Haverstraw and at the Jesse J. Kaplan School in West Nyack. Glover serves as an Honorary Board Member on the Rockland BOCES Family Resource Center Foundation, which funds a variety of programs for Rockland BOCES’ students and […]
The New York State Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation this week that would require the state to fully fund the cost of new mandates placed on local governments (or the expansion of existing mandates). The bill, S.3411 (sponsored by Senator Rich Funke of Monroe County), acknowledges that “State mandated programs, unlike local service decisions, place local […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Two residents pushed the Stony Point Town Board to take action on permitting issues  at Tuesday night’s board meeting. Bob Bagomolny is hoping to secure space at Clark Park for the Bike4Chai charity biking event for sick kids to make one of its several pit stops. Clark Park is at exactly the 60-mile mark […]