Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato formally announced he is running for a fourth four-year term as Rockland County clerk. The announcement took place at “Joe & Joe Restaurant” in Pearl River today, Thursday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m. Piperato, a Haverstraw resident, was first elected clerk in 2005 and re-elected in 2009 and 2013. Before […]
BY MORT BECKER I had the great opportunity to participate in a “Not in Our Town” – Clarkstown event which was hosted by the JCC and ably coordinated and arranged by Robert Pitkofsky, Dustin Hausner and Clarkstown Councilmembers Stepahanie Hausner and Daniel Caprara. In attendance was a diverse crowd ranging from a Chasidic Rabbi and […]
The Rockland County Legislature voted 16-0 Tuesday to amend its procurement policy to require individuals or entities wishing to do business with the county to submit a certificate declaring that they do not engage in any BDS activities. Boycott, Divest and Sanction is an organized effort to weaken and delegitimize Israel through economic isolation, the […]
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and a coalition of states and localities from across the country on Wednesday filed opposition to the Trump administration’s request to delay court proceedings regarding the Clean Power Plan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In November 2015, a coalition of states and localities led by Attorney General Schneiderman […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH The hearing that will ultimately determine whether Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme will be removed from office has started in Westchester County Supreme Court. In opening statements before Special Referee John P. Clarke, the attorney for Petitioners Ken Del Vecchio, Esq. laid out a claim of five separate acts of malfeasance that […]