After 30 years, ROCA executive director moves on to next chapter

BY KATHY KAHN  For more than three decades, Julianne Ramos has been guiding the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack. Today, March 30, she’ll be handing over the reins of the establishment she helped to build into one of Rockland’s most popular arts venue to ROCA’s interim director, Art School Director, Daly Flanagan, […]

Orangetown O.K.’s Soccer Complex

BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES As expected, Orangetown’s Town Board unanimously approved the sale of land at the Rockland Psychiatric Center complex in Orangeburg last week from one private developer to another. Under the terms of the agreement, the town agreed to remove all restrictive covenants on the 17-acre site, which had […]

ROCKLAND FILES TAX FORECLOSURE ON PATRICK FARMS PROPERTY

NEW CITY, NY — Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Attorney Thomas Humbach this week unveiled a new effort to expedite the foreclosure process for non-residential tax delinquent properties that are confirmed to be vacant. The new policy allows the county to legally foreclose on landparcels that owe real property taxes in two years instead […]

Rally flips questions to Albany as budget deadline nears

By Kathy Kahn Caregivers and the people who depend on them for getting through daily life are wondering if those essential services are as important to Albany as the wages of its own employees and those of fast-food workers. Non-profits and elected officials on March 18 rallied at Camp Venture in Stony Point to drive […]

NOTORIOUS ROCKLAND MURDERER SCHEDULED FOR PAROLE HEARING IN MAY

One of most infamous moments in Stony Point history BY: LEGAL LARRY In March 1985, Rockland County was rocked by a crime which shocked virtually all people involved, and is still talked about today. Hikers on the Stony Point, NY estate of a United Nations executive discovered the charred remains of a man wearing only […]