BY BARRY WARNER A Presidential Proclamation was signed this year by President Barack Obama to designate October 4-10, 2015 as Fire Prevention Week. Fire Prevention Week was first established to commemorate The Great Chicago Fire in 1871, which killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres. […]
Supervisor proposes cuts in totals, taxes BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown Supervisor Andrew Stewart has proposed a $68.1 million 2016 budget that is slightly lower than this year’s total, and which would reduce property taxes to the average homeowner next year by an estimated $54. The 102-page “Supervisor’s tentative Budget” […]
On Monday Rockland County announced that four new buses are now in service in Rockland County’s Transport of Rockland (TOR) fleet. The buses – two 29-foot and two 35-foot vehicles – are painted in the traditional white and green TOR colors and feature a low-floor design for easy boarding. The vehicles also include front door wheelchair access ramps; front, rear […]
RCT guest humor columnist Ella Steinbeck is the model on the cover of Time Magazine’s “breast cancer’s new frontier” edition this week. Congratulations, Ella!
Eli Kintisch, a graduate of Nyack High School’s Class of 1995, was honored by his selection to be in “Best Science and Nature Writing of 2015,” published this month in trade paperback by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. One of 26 articles chosen this year, his piece titled “Into the Maelstrom” was published in SCIENCE on April 18, […]
PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day, joined by U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Regional Administrator Kellie LeDet, SBA New York District Director Beth Goldberg and Rockland County Director of Economic Growth and Tourism Lucy Redzeposki, on Wednesday announced the signing of a Strategic Alliance Memorandum (SAM) that will bring more SBA programs and services to new […]