High school student arrested for pointing loaded gun at classmate during bus ride home

High school student arrested for pointing loaded gun at classmate during bus ride home

A 16-year-old Ramapo High School student was arrested Friday night for allegedly pointing a loaded gun at a classmate during a bus ride home earlier that day. The unnamed juvenile faces felony charges of reckless endangerment in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, as well as a Class A misdemeanor, […]

STATE CALENDAR FEATURES PHOTOS OF NEW MONTEBELLO ROAD BRIDGE

STATE CALENDAR FEATURES PHOTOS OF NEW MONTEBELLO ROAD BRIDGE

Rockland County’s newly reconstructed Montebello Road Bridge has been awarded a place in a 2017 calendar put out by the New York Conference on Bridges, Rockland County Executive Ed Day announced this week. The bridge, which spans the Mahwah River, will be featured in the calendar for the month of May. “We’re proud to show […]

ST. LAWRENCE’S HENCHMAN ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES: Town of Ramapo Chief Building Inspector Arrested, Charges Include Grand Larceny, Tampering with Public Records and Official Misconduct

ST. LAWRENCE’S HENCHMAN ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES: Town of Ramapo Chief Building Inspector Arrested, Charges Include Grand Larceny, Tampering with Public Records and Official Misconduct

FROM THE DA’S OFFICE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe today announced the filing of criminal charges against the Town of Ramapo Director of Building, Planning and Zoning for allegedly stealing over $100,000 in a yearlong scheme to falsify building permit applications as the result of an investigation conducted by the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office Special […]

She’s America’s Darling! Suffern’s Grace Vanderwaal wins first place on America’s Got Talent

She’s America’s Darling! Suffern’s Grace Vanderwaal wins first place on America’s Got Talent

Grace Vanderwaal has done it. The 12-year-old Suffern resident has gone from obscurity to champion of America’s Got Talent, clearly outshining the field with her original folksy music and unique crooning voice.  Her songs featured lyrics uncanny in their wisdom for a person only 12-years-old. The victory is most likely the launching point for a […]

Tuxedo/Sloatsburg revitalization on table as lieutenant governor pays another visit to Rockland

BY KATHY KAHN Dr. Dennis Murray, president of Marist College and Dr. Leonard Schleifer, president/CEO of Regeneron, on September 12 welcomed Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul to Rockland Community College for a briefing on the Mid-Hudson Council’s priority projects. The Tuxedo-Sloatsburg Route 17 revitalization, Urban Electric Power and a program to create Tech Smart/Tech Pod locations […]

Health Department schedules the first flu vaccine clinics of the season

COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announce that the first Health Department flu vaccine clinic of the season will be held on Friday, September 16, from 1 – 4 p.m. at the Robert Yeager Health Center, Building A, second floor rotunda clinic area, located on Sanatorium Road in […]