The Rockland County Department of Health encourages you to put on your walking shoes and enjoy the “great outdoors” this month on a variety of free local guided walks. The walks highlighted below offer visitors varied terrain, great scenery, interesting discussion points, and different levels of walking (1 sneaker is easy, 2 sneaker is moderate, […]
Pomona, NY – The Rockland County Department of Health’s flu vaccine clinic scheduled for this Friday, October 25 will be held from 1 – 4 p.m. at the Robert Yeager Health Center, Building D, Room 130 (Nursing Conference Room), located at 50 Sanatorium Road in Pomona. Please note that this change from the usual location. […]
Pearl is a two to three year old Tortoiseshell Tabby, or Torbie. She arrived at the shelter in mid-summer along with a litter of six little kittens. Because Pearl was nursing, an orphan kitten approximately the same age as hers was added to the brood. She quietly accepted the orphan kitten and eventually tried to […]
Rockland County effort becomes catalyst for change at state level Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe last week announced the results of a sweeping crackdown on STAR program violators and the unique amnesty initiative designed to help offenders avoid criminal charges. The amnesty program yielded significant results: 123 individuals came forward to voluntarily renounce […]
BY ALLAN GOLDSTEIN Ever since he was a kid in the Bronx in the mid-1950s, Nanuet resident Bob Trivero dreamed of being a radio disc jockey. Now on Friday evenings, as host of “The Doo Wop Dream Machine” on Rockland’s WRCR he comments, “It took sixty years to make my dream come true.” Playing tunes […]
Budget discussions continue at Stony Point Town Board; budget expected to be passed November 12 BY CHERYL SLAVIN The public hearing on Stony Point’s preliminary 2014 budget continued Tuesday night. The departure of business revenue from the town, and its affect upon the budget, was a theme repeated several times during the evening. Councilman James […]