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 […]
Orange County Legislature votes to allow Kiryas Joel referendum to ‘secede’ from Monroe BY KATHY KAHN By overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all-Satmar Hasidic town. Speaker after speaker filled the County’s Emergency Services Building on […]
New Direction for Ramapo coalition candidates Bill Weber (for Supervisor) and Shani Bechhofer (for Town Council) and Grant Valentine (for Town Council) won convincing victories Tuesday night in the Reform and Green primaries. “Last night’s results are another indication of how eager Ramapo residents are for a new direction in town government,” Bill Weber, the […]
A Ramapo town police officer who collected nearly $442,000 was New York State’s highest paid local government employee outside New York City during the 12 months ending March 31, according to the 2017 edition of “What They Make,” the Empire Center’s annual analysis of local government pay. The report features the average pay and number […]