Jobs, staffing, composting top Tuesday Agenda BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Orangetown Town Board was pleased with itself three weeks ago when it announced that it would keep its property tax increase to only 1.9 percent next year, meaning the town would just barely skirt New York State’s mandate to keep […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown’s Town Board happily announced Tuesday that the long-awaited sidewalk project for Route 340 in Orangeburg and Sparkill will finally get built, after nearly a decade in the planning stage. The board’s only regret in making the announcement at a regularly scheduled workshop meeting was that the chief proponent […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES By all accounts, Brian Kenny is one of the most competent but unassuming and unknown public officials working for the Town of Orangetown. And, by his account, one of the most unappreciated. He has never received a pay increase since he was hired in 1995 Brian Kenny is […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Campaigning for this fall’s election in Orangetown got off to a roaring startTuesday when Republican supervisor candidate Walter Wettje accused incumbent Democratic Supervisor Andrew Stewart of misusing town e-mail lists to solicit support for his private campaign events including a golf tournament and a barbeque. Stewart, a first […]
Your Eminence, We recently learned of the Archdiocese plan to stop offering Mass at Our Lady Queen of Peace chapel in Orangeburg as of September 1, 2013, and we are aware that the NYS Office of Mental Health will cut utility connections to this building in the event it becomes vacant. The building is old […]
Orangetown Gets Quick Approvals on RPC Projects BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Town of Orangetown is suddenly making rapid progress on its decade-old plans to re-develop the sprawling 348-acre former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus it owns in Orangeburg, announcing lightening fast approvals Tuesday evening for two of its more pressing projects […]