BY MICHAEL RICONDA SUFFERN – The newly-released tentative budget proposal for the Village of Suffern includes relatively steep tax and rate increases in the areas of general taxes, sewer rates and water rates. In the proposal, general fund appropriations climbed from $12.3 to $13.5 million, a $1.2 million increase intensified by revenues which dropped by […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Woodbury Police Chief Richard Vasquez officially threw his hat into the ring for the Rockland sheriff’s race on Monday, announcing his intent to run against current Sheriff Louis Falco. The Rockland County Times first reported Vasquez would be running a month ago. Speaking before a crowd of supporters, many […]
Highly-organized group pushed prescription painkillers, heroin BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – A series of morning raids swept up 17 individuals who now stand accused of operating a drug ring that stockpiled prescription painkillers and heroin before unloading it on Rockland and surrounding counties. Indictments were handed down today in a federal court in White […]
The presence of two swastikas at a local store has one man upset enough to begin a campaign for their removal. Storeowner and pharmacist Dipak Rao of Spring Valley Drug says two small, red swastikas above the entrance of his shop at 180 E. Central Ave., Spring Valley have a benign meaning in Hinduism and […]
LETTER SENT TO ALEX GROMACK ON FEBRUARY 26 To: Alex Gromack, Supervisor From: George Hoehmann, Councilman, Frank Borelli, Councilman We would like to recommend that the Town of Clarkstown enter into an agreement with the County of Rockland for the county to assume responsibility for all purchasing for the Town of Clarkstown. In light of […]
ORANGETOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT: FROM THE DESK OF D/Sgt. Michael Shannon James J. Finnegan III, 38, of Monroe NY was arrested for DWI after a property damage motor vehicle accident on Middletown Road Pearl River. Mr. Finnegan was arrested at the scene and transported to Orangetown headquarters where he refused to take a chemical breath test. […]