PRESS RELEASE After 12 months of research, surveys, and multi-agency collaborations, Rockland County has released its final report from the County Executive Commission on Community Behavioral Health on Friday, August 21. County Executive Ed Day, District Attorney Thomas Zugibe and other local officials released the report, which sets out its recommendations to reshape the behavioral […]
BY JERRY DONNELAN Director, Rockland Veterans Service Agency The GI Bill has been in existence since the end of WWII. Traditionally its use has been to allow veterans to go to college. Well, college isn’t for everyone. God knows I proved that. After WWII, GI’s could go to any school that they could get into […]
NEW CITY, N.Y. – Mike Diederich, Jr., an attorney from Stony Point, on Tuesday filed with the R.C. Board of Elections a petition to run as an independent candidate for the Rockland County Legislature, District 1. He will challenge the incumbent Republican, Doug Jobson. The Democratic Party did not put up a candidate. District 1 […]
A new five-year, $1.1 million U.S. Department of Education TRIO Student Support Services (TRIO) Program grant has been awarded to Rockland Community College to assist 140 “underserved” students in the successful completion of their postsecondary education. “Higher education opens the door to greater economic opportunity,” said U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Rockland and Westchester. “These federal investments will help […]
“While this temporary appointment of a highly knowledgeable team will not have veto power over Board decisions; they will, however, give us a real time look inside the East Ramapo School District and be able to make corrective suggestions that will provide the Board the opportunity to prove that they are doing the best they […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo last week signed legislation that will require tattoo and body piercing studios in New York State to use single-use needles and single-use ink for all procedures performed within their establishments. “Reusing tattooing or piercing needles poses potentially serious and life threatening health risks,” Governor Cuomo said. “This new law is an […]