Over $1.7 Million DOT Investment to Rehabilitate Runway at Stewart International Airport

PRESS RELEASE  Days after touring Dutchess County Airport, US House Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced a federal Department of Transportation (DOT) investment of $1,717,911 to rehabilitate two runways totaling 17,821 feet at Stewart International Airport. These investments are part of an eight phase redevelopment effort to renovate […]

VOICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE MAJORITY: 9/11: The Next Generation

VOICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE MAJORITY: 9/11: The Next Generation

9/11: The Next Generation By: Legislator Jay Hood, Jr. (D- Haverstraw) Vice Chair Rockland County Legislature It is difficult to come up with words that have not been used to describe September 11th and its devastating aftermath to our country and county. Fifteen years after that day, a new generation has been born and grown; […]

Sign Vandalism Way Up from 2012

According to Clarkstown PD between August 1 and August 27 there were 13 complaints to police about Trump signs being stolen or damaged and one report of a Hillary Clinton sign being taken from a resident’s property. During the last presidential election in 2012, over the same period of time zero complaints were recorded by […]

Light sentence for Tress

DA’S PRESS RELEASE On September 1, 2016, Samuel “Shmuel” Tress pleaded guilty in the Airmont Justice Court to Official Misconduct, a Class “A” misdemeanor offense after resigning his position as Town Councilman for the Town of Ramapo. His resignation was a condition of his plea agreement with the District Attorney’s Office. He also received a […]

Assemblywoman Jaffee to Support East Ramapo’s Charles-Pierre

State Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee proposed legislation to fix the controversy over East Ramapo’s Sabrina Charles-Pierre’s school trustee seat. Charles-Pierre’s term was invalidated by the school board after discovering she wasn’t sworn in within 30 days after the May board election results were certified. The Spring Valley NAACP and New York Civil Liberties Union criticized the […]