COUNTY PRESS RELEASE– Rockland County was able to gain agreements from NJ Transit and Metro-North after expressing frustration with lack of notice and limited options for commuters during scheduled repair work, County Executive Ed Day said. “Due to our efforts, Rockland commuters who use the rails will now have more options during this maintenance project,” Day […]
Breaking News From MIT BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT With the approval of David Rotman, editor of the MIT Technology Review, this week’s Ombudsman’s Alert will quote directly from an article featured in the Sept/Oct issue of this MIT publication. I will begin this column by first quoting Dr. George Daley, a stem-cell biologist, who recently became […]
The Rockland County Times has obtained pre-absentee ballot district-by-district vote tallies for the county executive and Surrogate Court justice primaries. The two hotly contested elections display the degree to which the Rockland electorate has coalesced into “Ramapo bloc vote” vs. “Anti-Ramapo bloc vote” camps. The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not […]
[UPDATE- Day said he will not challenge the results in court. He referred the Tom Sullivan has pulled ahead of Ed Day in the primary race for county executive following the count of 168 absentee ballots. Officials told the Rockland County Times that the tally currently is 647-615. County Executive Day led 574-520 after the initial […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT The Congers and Valley Cottage Civic Associations will hold their semi-annual “Candidates Night” tonight (Thursday, Sept. 14) at 7:30 p.m. at the Congers Veterans Memorial Association (VMA) building on Lake Road in downtown Congers, next door to the firehouse. All candidates running in Clarkstown for town and county offices have been invited to participate and most […]