Clarkstown Candidate Meeting Tonight (Sept. 24)

  BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Clarkstown residents, particularly those living in the Congers and Valley Cottage areas, will get a chance to meet their candidates for this fall’s town election tonight, (Thursday, Sept. 24) along with answers to questions they may have about the two ballot propositions they will see on November’s […]

Results from Primary Day September 10

The winds of change continue to blow in Rockland County politics. Longtime Clarkstown Highway Superintendent Wayne Ballard was among the incumbents defeated in last week’s primary election. Political newcomer Frank DiZenzo, a longtime employee at the Highway Department, easily defeated Ballard 65-35 percent in the GOP primary in an election framed by party leaders as […]

Sympaticare: Summit Park might not be ready for transfer

PERSONNEL AND FUNDING ISSUES COULD GO UNRESOLVED BEYOND SIGN DATE BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Sympaticare, the company that plans to lease and eventually buy the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care facilities, might not be ready by the stipulated contract date of September 30, according to CEO Shalom Bronstein. Bronstein, who provided an […]

Coalition of municipalities challenging KJ annexation petitions

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 […]

The County Executive’s Corner: Mandate Madness

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 […]

BRABENEC CALLS KJ ANNEXATION VOTE “ONE OF LEAST TRANSPARENT PROCESSES” HE’S EVER WITNESSED

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 […]