It was a hot room last Tuesday night as president of the North Rockland Teachers’ Association Robin Brennan approached the microphone to address the NRCDS School Board. Brennan came carrying the weight of a highly aggrieved teachers’ union, and this dispute was not about salaries. The union is currently in deep mediation with the school […]
To the Editor, They say the best way to get out of a hole is to stop digging. I am deeply concerned that we are continuing to dig a deeper hole for the North Rockland Community. The current proposed budget of $206,330,813 with a proposed tax levy increase of 3.63 percent to educate 8,129 students […]
Funds will help repair damage from Hurricane Irene along Minisceongo Creek PRESS RELEASE FROM CONGRESSWOMAN NITA LOWEY (D) Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today announced that Rockland County has been awarded $1,624,950 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding. The grant will support repairs to […]
Dear Editor, After the awesome and inspiring Right to Life March up Constitutional Avenue to the Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C. last Friday and our trek back to the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception to catch our bus, a few of us went inside to see if there was a Mass we could attend. […]
Every winter around Super Bowl Sunday, hundreds of people flock to the Hudson River to watch a bunch of people run into the freezing cold water. And every year for 13 years, the funds raised at this event are used to help save the life of one or two young children in North Rockland. This […]
PHOTOS BY TOM MCGUIRE Check out these beautiful snapshots of North Rockland by local photographer Tom McGuire.