County Executive Ed Day this spring continues his series of community conversations and town hall forums to gather input and listen to the concerns of local residents and discuss his priorities to move Rockland forward. “My first 15 months in office have shown that, while Rockland’s challenges are great, the power of this county to […]
To the Editor, Are all the NY courts like this? The “old boys club of money, power, and connections” seem to be alive and well in the Rockland County Family Court. Is this not a civil rights violation? How can a judge now say to Susan, the children’s mother, “You will terrify your girls; who have […]
BY BARRY WARNER Daniel Caprara is a super-volunteer who has no ‘off switch’ and sticks to his commitments to make things happen. Sonia Cairo, executive director of Keep Rockland Beautiful (KRB), indicated that Daniel spotted the organization’s volunteers planting trees and shrubs along Pascack Brook in Spring Valley several years ago. In 2013, he then […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN What has started, over the past few years, as a murmur of concern about the effects of Common Core aligned standardized tests on student and teacher evaluation and performance has now swelled into a roar of protest by thousands of parents statewide over what they believe are unfair, developmentally inappropriate and ultimately […]
NANUET – A serious motor vehicle accident on New Clarkstown Road in the early afternoon landed an elderly woman in the hospital and fighting for her life, according to Clarkstown Police. Police were called to the scene of the accident at around 12:40 p.m., where they found a sedan crushed into a stand of trees […]
BYÂ CHERYL SLAVIN Over the winter the Stony Point Police Athletic League had been busy planning for its future, and now that warmer weather is here will be hosting a number of enjoyable community events which will also help to raise funds for its skate park project and other year round activities. On Wednesday May 27 […]