COUNTY PRESS RELEASE County Executive Ed Day today announced the launch of Rockland’s County’s Behavioral Health Response Team (BHRT). Officially entering service this week, the Behavioral Health Response Team is a highly-trained crisis management unit that assists local residents, first responders and behavioral health agencies in providing on-scene evaluation, treatment and crisis intervention in the […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – After 2014’s divisive budget season, the County Legislature might soon consider adding new requirements to the county budget process. According to sources in the Legislature, two local laws might soon be floated before the body that would add new features to public budget disclosures and extend legislative authority to […]
WEST NYACK – A Haverstraw man now faces a slew of charges after he allegedly physically attacked a police officer and an EMT while intoxicated and out-of-control. Daniel McCormack, 31, was arrested last night and charged with third-degree assault, second-degree obstructing government administration and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors and third-degree assault, a felony. He was […]
BY RAQUEL OKYAY AND MICHAEL VOLPE A leading New York forensic psychiatrist told the Rockland County Times that family court proceedings, to the detriment of families, are bought and paid to the highest parental bidder. “This sort of thing happens in more than half the custody battles that I am involved in,” said Dr. Michael […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN A host of troubles appears to be dogging the Rockland Sewer District No. 1. Last October the district was ordered to pay almost a million dollars to the New Jersey village of Upper Saddle River for damages caused by sewage overflows on Saddle River Road. More recently the state Court of Appeals refused […]
CONGERS – Three Congers men were arrested late last week in connection to a string of arson incidents in the Congers area over the past several months, according to Clarkstown Police. The Clarkstown Detective Bureau identified Jesse Wickes, 33, Seth Levy, 30 and Kenneth Tagle, 39 as suspects in a string of about seven separate […]