Stroke Education Program for the Community Held at Good Samaritan Hospital

Stroke Education Program for the Community Held at Good Samaritan Hospital

BY BARRY WARNER Suffern – A free, comprehensive “Stoke Up-Close” education program took place at the Regional Center Auditorium of Good Samaritan last week, featuring a series of stations manned by a team of hospital stroke experts who addressed the different aspects of stroke care and prevention. Community attendees visited the stations, which including EMT, […]

Update on Brega to Schoenberger Donations

Following the Rockland County Times breaking the story, the Rockland Journal News discovered an additional $16,000 in donations from Brega related individuals to Ilan Schoenberger, for a total of $48,000, accounting for close to 50 percent of Schoenberger’s contributions in the January-July reporting period.

Timelines 9/5/13

Pedestrian struck by car in Chestnut Ridge A pedestrian was struck by a car on August 29 as he was walking through Chestnut Ridge, according to Ramapo Police. The 35-year-old man was travelling west on Red Schoolhouse Road when a 2006 BMW X3 moving in the same direction glanced his left arm and elbow as it […]

Preserve Rockland’s Clarkstown petitions challenged by Board of Elections

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – Preserve Rockland, which is running candidates for various local elections in Clarkstown, is facing a challenge to their candidates’ petitions in the latest of several election season court battles. On August 23, the Board invalidated candidacy petitions for Council candidate John Noto, Supervisor candidate Brian Moran, and Highway Superintendent […]

Can Congers Elementary be Saved?

Can Congers Elementary be Saved?

BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL On Thursday, August 29, word spread fast that Congers Elementary would not be opening this year, just 11 days before the start of school. The school was declared unsafe and anyone in the building was told to vacate immediately. A letter from Superintendent J. Thomas Morton and Principal Martha Ryan was […]

Aaron Klein: The Man, The Myth, The Muckraker

Aaron Klein: The Man, The Myth, The Muckraker

Aaron Klein delivers the goods on Syria, Benghazi and his new book “Impeachable Offenses” in an exclusive interview with the Rockland County Times BY RAQUEL OKYAY Prominent Jerusalem-based investigative journalist Aaron Klein has given the Rockland County Times a run-down on Syria, Benghazi and his new book “Impeachable Offenses.” “The president has no choice but […]