What’s going on at Hi Tor Animal Care Center? Nobody really knows! The brand new leaders of the board are out after a month and Sharon Needleman has assumed temporary leadership. If the chaos continues the shelter can count on a government takeover of some kind, the Rockland County Times predicts. Needleman put a positive […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- Spring Valley Trustee Vilair Fonvil successfully filed an emergency order Thursday to stop the village of Spring Valley from paying $114,280 to the Martin Luther King Jr. center in an alleged bad day camp deal set to rip off taxpayers. The emergency stop payment order was issued to Spring Valley […]
STORY AND PHOTO BY JANIE ROSMAN Sixteen months after it recommended rapid transit when the new bridge opens in 2018, the transit task force rolled out Phase 1 — a $91 million Suffern-Tarrytown-White Plains line — last week. At his first such public meeting after the State Senate approved him mid-June, Thruway Authority Executive Director, […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Kindergarteners in the East Ramapo Early Childhood Center will have a surprise next fall from the Tales for Tots Literacy Program. “The single most important activity for building knowledge for their eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children,” according to Becoming a Nation of Readers,a 1985 report by the Commission […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN One New City resident is teaching her students at Yonkers’ Lincoln High School that generosity and community service can reach recipients more than 7,100 miles away. “A lot of teenagers don’t understand how they can make a different with their actions,” social studies department chair Dee Silverman said. The annual fall walkathon […]
This year’s Independence Day celebrations will be marked in most places with traditional fireworks displays, particularly in places where localities have relaxed restrictions on certain sparklers, but locally the devices remain banned. Thus far, 31 counties have opted into limited fireworks sales, particularly the sale of low-risk sparklers that do not spout flames or include […]