BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Woodbury Police Chief Richard Vasquez officially threw his hat into the ring for the Rockland sheriff’s race on Monday, announcing his intent to run against current Sheriff Louis Falco. The Rockland County Times first reported Vasquez would be running a month ago. Speaking before a crowd of supporters, many […]
Phil Gigante has secured victory in the Village of Airmont mayoral race, pending counting of absentee ballots. At this time Gigante leads comfortably over Tom Gulla and Ralph Bracco by a count of 904-691-261.
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Just last week, the County Legislature’s Budget and Finance Committee held a public discussion on the inherent shortcomings of Medicaid, which leave the federally-created, state-mandated program vulnerable to rampant fraud and abuse. The Committee’s recent efforts aside, know that my Administration has placed much focus on the program’s deep-rooted deficiencies […]
The normally neighborly political scene of the Village of Pomona this year has taken on the flavor of politics seen in some of the contentious town elections in Rockland County. Accusations and counter-accusations are rife and the village has dealt with a rash of resignations of officers who blame incumbent Mayor Brett Yagel for pushing […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF It’s one of Rockland’s worst kept secrets. GOP and Preserve Airmont candidate for mayor Philip Gigante is the grandson of the late Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, longtime godfather of the Genovese crime family and arguably the most powerful gangster of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Chin Gigante was best […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day One in 25 Rockland County residents – four percent of our county’s 320,000 citizens – have served in our nation’s armed forces. Now ranging in age from their early twenties to over 95 years old, they defended the freedoms we hold dear, both during times of conflict and times […]