NEW CITY, NY — County Executive Ed Day on Wednesday dedicated a Cornelian Cherry Tree at Kennedy Dells County Park in New City in recognition of Montebello resident Deborah Munitz, recipient of the 2014 County Executive’s Outstanding Environmental Volunteer Award. As a volunteer with Rockland Organized for Sustainability and a Safe Aquifer (ROSA), Munitz’ research […]
Several local residents were named 2013-2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars during a ceremony April 10 at Rochester Institute of Technology: – Alyssa Kara Miller, daughter of Ellen Miller of New City, N.Y., is a fourth-year student in the Graphic Design – BFA program in RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. – Allison Rose Ritter, daughter […]
NYSAC PRESS RELEASE NYSAC Executive Director Stephen Acquario provided the county perspective on a regional panel devoted to the topic of New York’s heroin and opioid epidemic. The community forum, part of the bi-partisan Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addition, took place this morning at Hudson Valley Community College and was sponsored by […]
POMONA – The Rockland Municipal Planning Federation will sponsor a series of Certification Courses on April 24, April 28 and May 13, 2014. The courses are free and fulfill the certification requirement for municipal, planning and zoning board members as well as provide three hours of training for each course for each member towards their four-hour State training […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Rockland County Veterans Service Agency Director Jerry Donnellan will honor five local World War II veterans – brothers from two different families – as they prepare to participate in this weekend’s Hudson Valley Honor Flight to Washington DC. The American heroes, all in their late 80s […]
Study tests possible cancer vaccine PRESS RELEASE Melville, NY- March 11, 2014 – Advanced Radiation Centers of New York (ARC), one of the pre-eminent Radiation Oncology groups in the country, has been selected as the first free-standing radiation facility in New York to participate in a Phase III clinical trial of ProstAtak™, an innovative new […]