Senator Bill Larkin (R,C,I- 39th District) announced this week that he had secured $250,000 in state funding to help restore Stony Point’s historic Town Hall. The funding comes from a State and Municipal (SAM) funding grant and is one of several SAM grants that the senator has recently obtained for the region. “The historic Town […]
During the Roman Catholic Church’s “Jubilee Year of Mercy” the New York Archdiocese, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is holding a number of “Mercy Saturdays” throughout the area. The cardinal invites north Rocklanders and others to attend the upcoming Mercy Saturday on April 16, at the Salesian National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in […]
BY KATHY KAHN No one wants to see a balance of great companies with good jobs coming into Rockland County more than Rick Struck, who was chosen as interim president/CEO of the Rockland Economic Development Corporation and has now been formally assigned to the task of bringing great business and rateables to the county. Struck […]
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE ROCKLAND COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Suez has recently issued a notice informing their customers about an MCL Violation (maximum containment level) for Total Trihalomethanes in their water system. The language in their notice was largely prepared by the New York State Department Health to inform everyone about the levels found […]
Rockland County Legislator Aney Paul and a volunteer crew will participate in the 2016 Great American Cleanup sponsored by Keep Rockland Beautiful on April 9. New volunteers are welcome. The cleanup will be the latest in an ongoing effort by Paul to participate in neighborhood renewal projects. In 2014 as part of the Rockland County […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT This is the first in a series of articles written by Rockland Consumer Advocate Dr. Louis Alpert, former long-time chairman of the Town of Clarkstown’s Consumer Affairs Commission and professor emeritus of mathematics in the CUNY system This first column of the Ombudsman Alert concerns the vital topic of automobile safety […]