BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES While the Town of Orangetown wrestles over how to make its two public golf courses profitable the Town Board decided last week to proceed with another recreational project – creating new soccer and other athletic fields on a portion of the vacant former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus […]
A judge’s ruling made it risky for Orange County, NY prosecutors to seek a murder charge for the 2008 death of then 25-year-old Laura Vargas, so instead they had to settle for manslaughter in the case against Michael Mele, a registered sex criminal. Mele, who was once arrested for exposing himself and masturbating in front […]
Town Officials Negotiating with State over Former RCPC BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown is moving aggressively ahead with the planned purchase of another 100 acres of land at the mostly shuttered Rockland Psychiatric Center campus in Orangeburg, even before it has decided what to do with 348 acres of similar land […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES In a surprise move at an otherwise routine annual reorganization meeting the Orangetown Town Board voted unanimously Tuesday to switch the nights of its meetings to Thursdays for the remainder of 2012. For more than five decades, the board had met on Monday evenings four nights a […]
Road trenching fees to rise in Orangetown and sewer line replacement costs shift back to homeowners BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The cost of digging up streets to repair utility lines will go up in Orangetown next year, both for utility companies, contractors and homeowners. The Town Board unanimously approved two resolutions […]
On November 21, Dominican College students were recognized for academic achievement at the College’s annual Honors Convocation. During the Honors Convocation Ceremony, students who were named to the Dean’s List for one or more complete years were awarded a symbol appropriate to academic excellence, the tassel that graduates wear during commencement. These distinctively colored tassels […]