Issue cuts across partisan boundaries Rockland County Times A bipartisan group including Orange County Chamber President John D’Ambrosio, Haverstraw Town Supervisor Howard Phillips, Business Council President Heather Briccetti, and RBA President Al Samuels said in a unified voice that the costs of pensions, are “unsustainable.” Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence also supported the message, although […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES While the Town of Orangetown wrestles over how to make its two public golf courses profitable the Town Board decided last week to proceed with another recreational project – creating new soccer and other athletic fields on a portion of the vacant former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Everyone should feel as lucky as Stony Point Supervisor Geoff Finn. The leader of town government says after a month and a half on the job he has “the best job in the world.” “I love my work…I couldn’t ask for a better job,” Finn said of his being a full-time public […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo gave the Town of Stony Point all of two days notice that he’d be sending his men to the town to explain this year’s budget to the public. Governor Cuomo’s budget presentation, which he also recently brought to Haverstraw, was set to take place, Wednesday, February 22, 7 p.m. at the RHO […]
BY TONI SOWA Columnist Lynn Teger, a former candidate for Haverstraw Town Council, has a new goal— spreading awareness of a little known U.N. program that affects how economies will be developed in the future. On February 15 at the Tea Party Patriots meeting at the New City Library, Teger was guest speaker, informing […]
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ALLAN GOLDSTEIN Nyack Youth Center hosts large crowd at program that discussed NY’s new tax cap On Thursday evening February 9, the Nyack Youth Center was filled almost to capacity as local residents and school district administrators attended a program highlighting key elements of the New York state property tax levy […]