Body still divided over Multi-Services vote, fails to approve pro-monitor appointee BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Though a memorializing resolution expressing support for state intervention in the East Ramapo Central School District failed in committee last week, the issue remains divisive among the largely supportive legislature. The matter has become so heated that a […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA SPRING VALLEY – A new county initiative spearheaded by the Department of Health takes aim at the worst landlords by bolstering enforcemen and even placing offending properties under public scrutiny. The Rockland Codes Initiative, which was launched at a property owned by of one of the county’s worst offenders on Thursday, April […]
ORANGETOWN – Three separate intersections on Pascack Road will be closed for most of the week while road crews clear trees by the railroad tracks above the road’s one-way tunnel. Clarkstown Police announced Tuesday that the road will be closed at the intersections of North Pascack Road and Perlman Drive, North Pascack Road and Smith […]
NEW SQUARE – Four teens from Clarkstown and Orangetown were arrested early on Sunday after they allegedly pelted residents with eggs and shouted obscenities as they drove through the ultra-orthodox enclave of New Square. Police identified two of the teens, Daniel Brophy of Pearl River, 19, and Catherine Donnelly, 19, of Nanuet, as suspects. Two […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Stony Point’s incumbent supervisor has decided to call it quits after only two two-year terms in office, in spite of likely facing a free ride in November’s election due to his high popularity. Democrat Geoff Finn told the Rockland County Times that after 10 years in government and four years as supervisor […]
State-funded call center to employ veterans, people with disabilities BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – The Rockland Independent Living Center opened its new Connections Contact Center in Chestnut Ridge on Friday, May 1, beginning a self-sustaining project that aims to gather work for local businesses, while providing valuable employment for some of those most in […]