By Michael Riconda Suffern – Local elected officials gathered at Rockland Community College’s Eugene Levy Field House on April 9 to greet a multitude of job-seekers and explain steps taken at local and state levels to enhance employment opportunities in the county, including opportunities with the new Tappan Zee Bridge project. The 15th annual job […]
COMMENTARY BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Mayor Noramie Jasmin may not be a member of the 1 percent, but she is a member of the 5 percent or so, and as such it is amazing that she claimed poverty at her arraignment on Tuesday, April 2 in White Plains. Mayor Jasmin, who has not stepped down […]
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County Legislature Expresses Support for Bohovesky Family During its April 3 meeting, the Rockland County Legislature passed a resolution expressing support for the family of Paula Bohovesky and urging the New York State Parole Board to deny parole to her killers. Bohovsky, 16 of Pearl River, was killed in 1980 by Richard LaBarbera and Robert […]
William Tucker, author of “Freedom Summer,” says Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 93-year-old inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, has donated $8,000 of the $35,000 needed to take the play about civil voting rights and murder in Mississippi during the 1960s on a nationwide tour. Tucker and the Shades Reportory Theatre in Haverstraw hope with the help of Kickstarter […]
Open letter from Rockland PBA President James J. Kelly to Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger Dear President Lee C. Bollinger, Last week we learned that Kathy Boudin was recently employed by Columbia University as an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work. On behalf of the hundreds of police officers serving in Rockland County and […]