BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Orangetown Democrat Chris Smith believes one way to shrink government costs is to eliminate your own position. Smith is running for the office of Orangetown receiver of taxes on the plan that he’s the man to help eliminate the position. He is supporting a referendum that residents and town board members are […]
Rockland County’s Biggest Natural Disaster BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The most deadly natural disaster ever to strike Rockland County was commemorated Sunday in Haverstraw when more than 50 local residents gathered for the annual memorial service for those killed in the infamous Haverstraw Landslide of 1906. A total of 19 people […]
On January 4, the seventh grade Geography Bee was held in the South Orangetown Middle School auditorium. Winners from each individual class competition assembled on the stage to vie for the title of the overall seventh grade winner. Questions were posed to each of the contestants by teachers Sarah Kukla and James Amandola, who, along […]
BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL Clarkstown had its annual reorganization meeting last Thursday, January 3. This is the meeting where elected government officials are sworn into office and the town supervisor offers a state of the town address. Town Justice Rolf M. Thorsen was sworn into office by Family Court Jude William Warren. Thorsen was accompanied […]
DA’s Office confirms family members will likely be charged with labor trafficking in addition to abuse A Ramapo family whose matriarch recently was convicted of labor trafficking charges is accused of more of the same. Ramapo police have charged Vikas Jagota, 36, of 26 Butternet Dr. in New City, with forcing a 32-year-old female victim’s […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Stony Point Town Board convened at 7 p.m. on January 8 to handle matters which included the swearing in of a councilman, new equipment purchases and leases, the granting of a gathering permit and waiving of a public hearing for the Polar Plunge, and continued public discussion on the Champlain-Hudson Power […]