BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Rockland Business Association hosted a panel of local organizations and subsequent networking event at 8 a.m. on November 19 in order to educate local business owners on rebuilding and expanding their operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The panel included Hubert Christophe of HANDYPRO, Tom Morley of RCC’s Small Business […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer pushed for FEMA to open a second Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Rockland County, in Piermont, during a tour of the storm-ravaged village of Piermont. “The more disaster recovery centers we can have, the more money will flow to home owners, to store owners, to communities, to […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL The Town of Haverstraw Board members received high praise from the public on Tuesday, for the town’s quickness in responding the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. The comments came during a special board meeting rescheduled for Tuesday night because of the Veterans Day holiday. Though the town did sustain damage, with downed […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Sunday afternoon at Trinity United Methodist Church, Hudson Lyric performed perhaps its most ambitious production to a limited audience. Sandy after-effects held down the attendance, but the show went on. And it went on very well, with a 15-piece orchestra, some added new talent and some very good performances from the opera […]
Rabbi Noson Leiter, president of the activist group Torah Jews for Decency and Rockland County resident, has caused waves in the past by associating natural disasters with the LGBT movement and abortion. Prior to New York passing “marriage equality” last June Leiter editorialized that Noah’s flood was provoked by same-sex relations and natural disasters can […]
Dear Editor, Extraordinarily long lines at the region’s gas stations are an inevitable consequence of government policy. But contrary to what many believe, it is not because politicians have not done enough. It is because they have done too much. Laws that prohibit “price gouging” rest on the assumption that both the available supply of […]