The Suffern Free Library will be celebrating its centennial during a special weekend of festivities beginning June 12, 2026. This landmark event honors a century of continuous service, growth, and dedication to the residents of the Suffern Central School District. The celebration will kick off on Friday, June 12, at 1:00 PM with guided tours […]
A few weeks ago now, I wrote an opinion piece about the official flag of Rockland County and how I found it lacking. To recap, it’s very busy, shouts what it’s supposed to mean, and doesn’t feel representative of who we are as a community. I felt that an improvement could be made, and I […]
The race for CD-17 is heating up as Primary election day draws ever closer. Beth Davidson is one of the leading candidates in the Democratic Race. Currently a legislator in Rockland County, she’s lived in Rockland for over 20 years and has previously served as a Nyack School Board Member. The RCT recently had the […]
The year is 1972 and this writer, complete with a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from St. John’s University believed herself ready, willing and able to take on the world. And then the news of the scandals at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, N.Y. broke in the news for all the world to […]
Last Friday at RCC, President Donald J. Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, which was accepted on his behalf by his mother Allison Crowther. The award was a complete surprise, and presented on the anniversary of Crowther’s story breaking with the New York Times on Memorial Day, 2002. The Presidential Medal […]
Rockland Resident Lt. Col. Thomas Danas of Pomona, NY served as the Grand Marshall at the second largest Memorial Day Parade in the country, held in Douglaston, NY. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Evangelos Danas served in the United States Air Force for nearly 42 years, in both an active and reserve capacity, and as a noncommissioned […]