MTA Updates Plan for Financial Future The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released its 2013 Preliminary Budget and July Financial Plan for 2013-16. In 2010, the MTA demonstrated the most aggressive cost cutting in its history. The plan released now builds on those same cost cutting initiatives. These efforts have generated $686 million in annual recurring […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE – A special exhibit “Across The Great Divide,” photographs by Roberta Price, opens August 2 and will be at the Museum at Bethel Woods through December 31. It explores the back to the land movement of the 1960s and 1970s and captures the hopes, optimism and utopian promise that fueled that […]
Dear Editor, Just about everyone has become familiar with the popular TV commercial featuring duplicate cars having the same damages. However, the insurance premium difference makes it worth switching coverage to another company. This is similar to two different sentences recently reported from Rockland County Supreme Court for child sexual abuse. Both accused pleaded guilty. […]
Tight lips at the Board of Elections as they work to verify signatures hurriedlyย BY SARA GILBERT New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporters. Valentine, of Chestnut Ridge, plans to challenge Carlucci, of New City, for the 38th Senate District, which includes […]
Rocklandย Countyย budget news gets even worseย BY SARA GILBERT The Rockland County Legislature met Tuesday, July 24 to receive news that despite tax hikes and 100 layoffs, the county is an additional $15 million in debt so far during this budget year, bringing the grand debt total to an estimated $95 million. Acting County Finance Director […]
Fines Raised for False Fire Alarms in Nyack A resolution was passed in Nyack on Thursday, July 19 increasing the fines for false alarms to the local fire department.ย Anyone who places a false call to the Nyack fire department more than twice a year will be penalized with a $300 fine. And the fines […]