RAMAPO, NY – The Ramapo Police Department released an update on their investigation into a May 19, 2019 fatal crash involving a motor vehicle and a lawnmower in the Village of Sloatsburg. “This is a follow up to the Ramapo Police and Rockland County District Attorney’s Office investigation of the May 19 crash involving a […]
By Joel Grossbarth A New York City Police Sergeant is suing the Town of Ramapo and one of its officers claiming false arrest, malicious prosecution and violation of federal civil rights in connection with an arrest made in July 29, 2016. The Plaintiff, Joel Silverman, a Sergeant stationed out of the 26th precinct Detective Squad […]
By County Executive Ed Day In two weeks, Rockland County will join with 16,000 other communities across our Nation to host our first ever, county-wide, National Night Out (NNO) at Palisades Credit Union Park on August 8th beginning at 5:00 PM. National Night Out has been held annually since 1984 and while several municipalities here […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH Anyone that has lived in Rockland County or the Hudson Valley region will recall the truly tragic case where Patricia Nigro was murdered by her boyfriend William T. Groesbeck in her home in Sloatsburg. Groesbeck then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide in October 2015. While murder/suicide cases usually don’t lead […]
At 3:37 p.m. on May 28, the Ramapo Police Department responded to a serious motor vehicle accident on Phyllis Terrance in the Village of Kaser. Arriving officers discovered that a 15-month-old girl, Gitty Rosenberg, had been struck by a 2017 Toyota Sienna driven by her father, Levi Rosenberg. The child was transported to Good Samaritan […]
A Ramapo town police officer who collected nearly $442,000 was New York State’s highest paid local government employee outside New York City during the 12 months ending March 31, according to the 2017 edition of “What They Make,” the Empire Center’s annual analysis of local government pay. The report features the average pay and number […]