Eric Dranoff, Esq., Chairman of the Rockland County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) announced that Steven Porath will lead the IDA’s efforts as its new Executive Director. Steven Porath was appointed to the position by the IDA’s Board of Directors effective March 1. Formerly the Director of Economic Development for Rockland Economic Development Corporation (REDC), Porath […]
Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato was sworn in on February 6 as the President of the New York State Association of County Clerks (NYSACC) in Albany, NY. For hundreds of years, 62 county clerks from across New York State have served as clerks to supreme and county courts. They also fill the role of recording/records […]
Two grandparents on opposite ends of the continent each had a concern about the direction of education reform and its effect on their grandchildren. Through a chain of improbable circumstances they found each other on Facebook and conjured up a letter to President Obama expressing their concerns. Mark Naison, Ph.D., from Brooklyn, NY and a […]
In the wake of growing controversy over the unsustainable financial situation at Hi-Tor Animal Shelter in Pomona, Rockland Legislators Ed Day and Alden H. Wolfe have initiated a discussion item requesting a committee review of the matter of animal control and care in Rockland County. “Government has a responsibility to ensure that there is an […]
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 […]
Chicago Mayor Emanuel pursuing aggressive strategy to fix a broken public school system BY STEVE GUNN Editorial submission from Education Action Group CHICAGO – The problem for students in Chicago Public Schools was summed up by the first line of a recent newspaper article: “Chicago Public Schools officials said they had no choice but to […]