Colin J. Schmitt, New Windsor resident and likely Republican candidate for state Assembly, has announced the launch of ‘Coffee with Colin,’ a series of meet and greets in the 10 towns of the 99th Assembly District. The district is primarily in Orange County but includes the Town of Stony Point in Rockland. Open discussions of […]
ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Town of Clarkstown will be holding its annual Town Board “Reorganization” meeting on Monday, January 4, 2016 in the Town Hall Auditorium. At the event, Supervisor–elect George Hoehmann, the 45th supervisor of the Town of Clarkstown, will deliver his inaugural address, where he will discuss his vision for 2016. Hoehmann told […]
BY JOHN LEOPOLDO It’s seems like just yesterday that the Rockland County Legislature was ready to approve almost $3 million to wash county buses. The county executive was outraged as was the general public. The resolution quietly disappeared and Brega Transport did not get one penny extra for bus washing. Fast forward about a year. […]
PRESS RELEASE SUBMITTED BY COUNCILMAN DANIEL FRIEDMAN An independent study of the government consolidation proposal initiated by Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman has been completed by the firm CGR, which has worked on numerous consolidation and dissolution projects across New York State. The results of the study verify the long-touted benefits that consolidating several fire districts […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week signed into law legislation to establish The Edward Hopper Citation of Merit for Visual Artists. The legislation, (A.2121A/S.4235A) sponsored by Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) unanimously passed both houses of the Legislature. Jaffee said, “I thank the governor; the bill’s Senate sponsor, Betty Little, chair of the […]
Colin Schmitt (R-C), the 20-something political wunderkind who nearly beat the odds to grab the Republican nomination for Assembly District 99 (Parts of Orange County and Stony Point) in 2012, is now the odds on favorite to face incumbent Assemblyman James Skoufis (D). Schmitt has been involved in politics since his early teens and was […]