Richard “Nunker” Brooks, ex-chief of W.H.F.D, former Rockland County Deputy (44-3) Coordinator, and Fifty-Eight year member of S.W.Johnson S.F.E.Co No1 of Garnerville,N.Y. Honored with the Charles M. Fales award at the Rockland County Fire Chief’s association dinner on March 29,2014, before a group of Two-Hundred & Sixty at the event!
The Welles Remy Crowther Red Bandana Memorial Scholarship through the Rockland Community Foundation was established by his family as a way of honoring Welles’ legacy. It awards a $1,000 scholarship to a deserving Rockland County high school graduate choosing to pursue a career in fire and emergency services or health related services. “We were delighted […]
Hospital contends low score does not reflect its true performance BY BILL DEMAREST NYACK – Nyack Hospital got a bit of bloody nose last week with a Cosumer Reports story and ratings on hospitals, which hit Nyack with a low score. But hospital officials contend the rating for Nyack Hospital does not reflect its true […]
The New York State Division of Consumer Protection and the NYS Tax Department has alerted consumers to phone and email scams from individuals claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or State Tax Department. Scammers posing as tax officials are threatening New Yorkers with fines, arrest, and other penalties if they don’t immediately […]
BY BARRY WARNER At Nyack Middle School, grade seven students participated in a ‘Slicing Prisms and Pyramids’ curriculum segment, in which they developed strategies to carve prisms out of a block of play dough with a wire clip cutter. The student measured the surface area and volume for 3-dimensional shapes, such as a triangle and […]
As part of its plan to develop new processes to get the power back on more quickly from storm-related electric outages, on Monday O&R launched a pilot program designed to streamline O&R’s field damage assessment procedures, making them faster, more efficient and more accurate. Under this pilot program, O&R would transmit field damage reports in […]