The Thruway’s new cashless tolling system for the TZ Bridge is set to go into effect April 23. At that time drivers will receive a bill in the mail based on their license plate number, if they do not use EZ-Pass. There will be no toll lanes. About 80 percent of bridge traffic is signed […]
This Sunday the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a leak of 11.5 million confidential documents from a law firm in Panama obtained by an anonymous source. The documents are said to have exposed the secret off-shore accounts of some of the world’s most powerful people, at least 12 current or former world leaders and […]
Governor Cuomo has reacted to the passage of a North Carolina bill banning transsexuals from using restrooms that do not match their anatomy and a Mississippi bill allowing persons to decline to serve gay weddings by drafting an executive order banning non-essential state travel to both states. The order requires all New York State agencies, […]
BY CHAYIM TAUBER All of the allegorical springtime clichés apply. The program is “turning over a new leaf”. The “roots are beginning to take,” the “seeds beginning to blossom.” “New hope.” “A New beginning.” Any and all of the aforementioned adages could apply to Rockland Community College’s men’s tennis program who find themselves ranked fourth […]
Last week County Executive Ed Day announced that the county had begun tax foreclosure action on the majority of parcels that comprise the controversial proposed Patrick Farms Development, amongst over 100 other unrelated commercial properties in the county. On Wednesday afternoon, March 23, a title insurance company representative from National Granite brought in two cashier’s […]
BILL DEMAREST PEARL RIVER – A Rockland County man and a New Jersey man were arrested on assault charges after they were involved with separate incidents last Sunday in Pearl River in which two Orangetown police officers were injured, according to Orangetown police. Police said one town officer was treated for an injury to an […]