The Mental Health Association of Rockland County, Inc. is hosting it’s 11th Annual What’s Cool Conference, “How to Know and Get What You Want in Life” for young women on Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the Finklestein Memorial Library, in the Fielding Room at 24 Chestnut Street in Spring Valley […]
Program paid for by your federal taxes Rockland Community College (RCC) has been named the recipient of the “Muslim Journeys Bookshelf Award,” receiving books, films and access to online resources about Islamic beliefs and culture. The news was momentous enough to earn a front-page, full-page announcement in the college’s winter newsletter SCENE. RCC received 25 books, […]
Lower Hudson Valley Craft Beer Festival presented by Growler & Gill Craft Beer Shoppe, Sat. June 1, 3-7 p.m. For the first time, Rockland County will be host to a craft beer festival. Organizers say the event, featuring over 30 breweries, will be the premier craft beer sampling event in the lower Hudson Valley. The outdoor […]
The National Weather Service is forecasting 2 to 5 inches of snow and wintry mix for Rockland County beginning around 4 p.m. today (March 18), possibly followed by a period of all-ice, before turning to all-rain overnight. A Winter Storm Warning is in effect from 4 p.m. Monday until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
BYMarc Maturo PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Down here where the flowers bloom in the spring, tra-la-la, you won’t find erstwhile New York Yankees outfielder Ross Moschitto at Tradition Field following the Mets, nor in nearby Jupiter at Roger Dean Stadium checking in on the Florida Marlins or the St. Louis Cardinals. Neither will […]
The newly elected pope, leader of the Catholic Church, is a first in at least three ways. A native of Argentina and the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first pope elected from the American continents. He is also the first pope in the church’s history to be from the Jesuit […]