BY MICHAEL CAHILL Pattern for Progress issues a report analyzing how solid Rockland’s educational infrastructure is for the coming decade Declining enrollment rates and a shrinking tax base will have a profound effect on Rockland County’s school districts over the next eight years, according to a report from the Hudson Valley non-profit Pattern for Progress. […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Budget Talks, and officially closing three schools The North Rockland Central School met for a Committee of the Whole Board Workshop Session of the Board of Education Tuesday night in the North Rockland Administration Building to discuss next year’s budget and vote to officially close several schools. This week’s meeting opened with […]
Stony Point’s Ricky Romano named new music director at Thiells UMC Twenty-two-year-old Ricky Romano, born and raised in Stony Point and a graduate of North Rockland High School and SUNY Potsdam College, has been appointed music director at the Thiells United Methodist Church and will assume his duties next month according to Reverend Jessica Campbell, […]
BY JAMIE KEMPTON A pro football player, national-champion wrestler, Olympic official and near-Olympian soccer player headline this year’s class of inductees in the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame. The 39th annual induction dinner is set for Sunday, April 29, starting 5 p.m., at the Pearl River Elks Club in Nanuet. The roster of inductees […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL The North Rockland Central School District (NRCSD) School Board met Tuesday evening in the auditorium of Fieldstone Secondary School for their regular meeting and the unveiling a new district mission statement. The meeting once again started on a musical note, as the cast of North Rockland High School’s production of “Thoroughly Modern […]
Submitted by Diego Aviles Update from North Rockland School District COTW meeting last night. The current proposed 2012-2013 budget increase is 1.76 percent, which will result in a 2.69 percent tax levy increase. This does not mean that taxes will be going up 2.69 percent. It could be more or it could be less. There […]