Eighteen of 21 full-time workers at the Rockland County Recycling Center in Hillburn have voted to go on strike, Teamsters Local 445 told local media this week. Teamsters accused ReCommunity, the Charlotte, N.C.-based national company that runs the recycling facility in Hillburn, of taking advantage of most Spanish-speaking employees and paying them substandard wages. Teamsters […]
FROM NYACS The New York Association of Convenience Stores this week commended New York’s neighborhood retail stores for achieving a record-high level of underage tobacco sales prevention, but said there is still more work to be done. The latest report on underage tobacco sales enforcement, just released by the New York State Department of Health, […]
The Rockland County Volunteer Fire Police Association under the leadership of President Neil Marcus held their February 12 meeting at the David B Roche Fire Company Thiells. As part of the meeting; Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco administered the oath of office to the fire police officers who were in attendance from various Rockland County […]
BY ROBERTKNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES By a narrow 3-2 vote the Orangetown Town Board has agreed to hire a private company to run its financially beleaguered Broadacres Golf Court for the next three years. Depending on the success of the public-private venture, the five-member council will then decide in the winter of 2016-17 […]
Funeral set for Richard Capper of Haverstraw BY BILL DEMAREST HAVERSTRAW – The Rockland County Medical Examiner’s Office has concluded that a Palisades Interstate Parks Commission worker, who was a longtime Haverstraw Ambulance Corps volunteer, died of natural causes. Laura Carbone, Rockland’s chief medical examiner said Richard Capper, 49, of Haverstraw, did not sustain any […]
Rockland SCORE, a mentorship program for small business owners and entrepreneurs, announced recently that it has opened a new location at the RCC Haverstraw Extension Center in downtown Haverstraw. It is SCORE’s fifth location in the county. “Rockland County SCORE is enthused to be a partner in the RCC Haverstraw Extension Center,” said Bob Janesak, […]