Rockland County Times Publisher Emeritus Armand Miele made a rare public appearance this evening at the Grolier Club in New York City, to accept an honorable mention in autobiography for “Born Minus: From Shoeshine Boy to News Publisher, An Italian-American Journey” at the Beach Book Festival. The Beach Book Festival is a summertime ancillary to […]
Miele’s Musing by Publisher Emeritus Armand Miele When I first heard of the organization Planned Parenthood, I thought, what a wonderful idea. I thought Planned Parenthood would be a center for counseling young married couples about childbearing and child-rearing, with all the responsibilities that come with it. Boy was I taken, and many others along […]
BY PUBLISHER EMERITUS ARMAND MIELE Political parties should pay for their own primaries in New York. Why should taxpayers be responsible? Primaries benefit no one but the politicians. It’s their problem, so let them pay for it. The Republican and Democratic parties control our government. Each have their internal quarrels, and that’s fine. They don’t […]
The Rockland County Times has followed through on the promise to donate to a local charity 10 percent of net sales from a special section honoring the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The Rockland County Times donated the proceeds to the Thomas J. Foley Memorial Foundation, with the purpose of distributing […]
CORRECTION In the January 19 issue, in the article “Legislators Ask for $80 Million Deficit Bond…” the Rockland County Times incorrectly reported that Al Samuels, president and CEO of the RBA, said he was planning to call on the state comptroller to install a control board to oversee county finances. In fact, Samuels merely announced […]