COUNTY PRESS RELEASE– Rockland County Executive Ed Day joined local officials and advocates to declare Domestic Violence Awareness month in Rockland County. “Domestic violence is a scourge,” he said. “It’s something we all need to recognize for what it is – entrapment, reliance on an abuser, there are so many dynamics to this issue.” He […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day When the state started creating plans in 2000 to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge, many of us in Rockland County thought we would finally get the mass transit options that much of the New York metro area already enjoys. In the 17 years that it’s taken to […]
Rockland County will be safer thanks to a grant for $558,588 from the New York State Office for Homeland Security.Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Rockland Sheriff Louis Falco signed a resolution Monday to accept the funds, which will be used for the County’s counter-terrorism teams. The state grant will help Rockland County be better prepared in […]
To the Editor, As a Pearl River resident and Air Force veteran (Operation Enduring Freedom), I’ve continued to read with disgust, both in your pages and on social media, candidate for town supervisor Thom Kleiner and his campaign repeatedly denigrate our military and veterans in their desire to attack decorated Army combat veteran Chris Day. […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day We know summer is really over when our kids go back to school and we see yellow buses on the streets of Rockland every morning and afternoon. But for those of us in government, the end of summer signals something else: Budget season. The Rockland County Charter requires […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Over 15,000 Rockanders turned out to the polls on primary election day Tuesday, September 12. Voter turn out was highest among Democrats, largely drawn out by the contest for Surrogate Court justice between Legislator Alden Wolfe and Keith Cornell. The New City lawyer, Cornell, won the race handily, 5,549 votes to 4,314, […]