Senator David Carlucci (D – Rockland/Westchester), in partnership with Rockland Community College and the Workforce Investment Board of Rockland, is hosting Rockland Community College’s 17th Annual Job Fair, on Thursday, April 2, 2015 in the Eugene Levy Field House from 11 a.m. -3 p.m. The Fair is open to students, alumni of Rockland Community College, […]
BY MARIA BROWNSELL A combined town workshop and town board meeting in Clarkstown was held Tuesday after the last board meeting was cancelled due to snow. Nineteen snowstorms this winter have left the roads in lousy condition. Highway Superintendent Wayne Ballard presented his plan of attack for this year. According to Ballard, there is a […]
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 […]