On Wednesday, a coalition of eight Orange County municipalities executed a Municipal Cooperation Agreement that authorized the New York City Law Firm of Bryan Cave to commence litigation challenging the 507- and 164-acre annexation petitions to annex territory from the Town of Monroe to the Village of Kiryas Joel, and to challenge the environmental review with respect to […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Legionnaires’ disease weighed heavily on the minds of New Yorkers this summer. An outbreak in the South Bronx claimed 12 lives and sickened more than 120 people. Here in Rockland County, three people were felled by the potentially deadly respiratory illness. In response to the Bronx outbreak, the New […]
Assemblyman Karl Brabenec (R,C,I-Deerpark) has blasted the recent decision by the state and town board to allow Kiryas Joel to annex over 100 acres of Town of Monroe territory. Brabenec makes his statements in spite of receiving significant support from the so-called Orthodox Jewish “block vote.” STATEMENT BY BRABENEC: “This annexation is going to set […]
Your home could be next! BY MICHAEL RICONDA SUFFERN – Legislation is in the works in Albany which could impose a statewide ban on smoking in hotel rooms. The bill, introduced late in August by Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski, would expand the Clean Indoor Air Act to include hotel and motel guest rooms. The Clean Air […]
PRESS RELEASE Mike Diederich, Jr., an attorney from Stony Point, has filed a lawsuit seeking a place on the ballot for November’s election. Incumbent Legislator Doug Jobson filed objections to Diederich’s designating petition in August, and the R.C. Board of Elections upheld the objections, finding Diederich to be 14 signatures short of the number needed. […]
STATEMENT BY SKOUFIS: The 164-acre annexation petition wrongly approved by the Monroe Town Board this evening sets a precedent with serious repercussions. The Town of Monroe’s own consultants alongside so many others found Kiryas Joel’s environmental reviews to be either insufficient or not in the overall public interest. I strongly believe that a more sustainable […]