BY BARRY WARNER This week is National Police Week, an occasion dedicated to honoring America’s Law Enforcement establishment. National Police Week began in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy proclaimed May 15 as National Peace Officers’ Memorial Day and the calendar week in which May 15 falls as National Police Week. In one event held […]
The O’Grady-Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund announces the recipients of their 2014 scholarship awards. Each recipient will receive a $1,000 award. The awards will be presented on June 7, 2014 at 10 a.m. at an awards brunch being held at the Nyack Seaport. The public is invited and tickets to the event are $25. The speaker […]
He must be psychic! Harvey Winter is the winner of the Rockland County Times “Creative Selfie” contest. His entry featured a “selfie” made to look like it was on the front page of the Rockland County Times with a headline announcing a “Wesley Hills Man” as the winner. In reality, Winter had cut out the […]
United Way chose Homes For Heroes for their Day of Caring and enlisted the brute strength of St. Thomas Aquinas College’s Varsity Basketball Team to get the job done. The STAC students spent a day volunteering getting the old Camp Shanks Army buildings in shape for new uses for American war veterans. St. Thomas Aquinas […]
The Rockland County Salvation Army last week presented its Doing the Most Good Award to O&R’s Vice President for Customer Operations Edwin J. Ortiz. The presentation was made by the Salvation Army’s Rockland Coordinator Major Marcus Jugenheimer during the Ninth Annual Awards breakfast at the organization’s local headquarters in West Nyack. Ortiz, who oversees O&R’s […]
Lace up your shoes and join the New City Gladiators as they prepare to take part in two different races in a group effort to raise money for The Wounded Warrior Project. Dr. Michael Cocolivo and Dr. Gil Rodriguez of New City Chiropractic Center are the brains behind the operation and currently are inviting others […]