BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Clarkstown’s Town Board came out in favor of proposed oversight for the East Ramapo School District, voting last Tuesday to officially endorse two legislative bills which aim to straighten out the district with the help of a state-appointed fiscal monitor. The Clarkstown Town Board voted overwhelmingly in favor of […]
County launches new mental health crisis team Rockland County took new steps to address the medical needs of residents last week with the introduction of a new service designed specifically for mental health emergencies. The County’s Behavioral Health Response Team is comprised of units which include a behavioral health clinician and an EMS technician or […]
A photo of a family standing around and their child sitting on the 9/11 Memorial in Haverstraw Bay Park roiled ethnic tensions in Rockland County this week and gained the attention of Rockland County Executive Ed Day as well as a controversial Hasidic Jewish organization that recently put out an even more controversial video “The […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The sudden and unexpected demolition of the historic 1752 Abram Lent House in Orangeburg Saturday has led to an outpouring of outrage throughout Rockland County and even the United States, and has led to the creation of online media efforts to “make sure this never happens again […]
Press Release This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the charter that formed the Historical Society of Rockland County. To mark of this important milestone, we asked members to share their thoughts on the county’s most formative events of the past 50 years. Their responses have inspired “A Half-Century of History, 1965-2015: […]
County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Human Rights S. Ram Nagubandi today announced that seven individuals have been inducted into the Civil and Human Rights Hall of Fame during the 12th Annual Civil Rights Hall of Fame luncheon in Nyack. The 2014 inductees were selected from a list of distinguished nominees selected by the Human […]