James Amandola ’02, former Manhattan College men’s lacrosse player and a social studies teacher in the South Orangetown School District, was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame at its 34th annual ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Smith Auditorium. Amandola also serves as assistant coach in both lacrosse and football for South Orangetown. In […]
The College Sports Notebook is compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The notebook will be published every Thursday, and also can be visited at www.rocklandcountytimes.com. Please send items of interest to marcmaturo@aol.com. Mustangs riding high The rings have already been […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Obama gets four more years; Democrats win GOP seats in Rockland, in 2012 you can go ahead and paint the county blue Rockland County and America has gone through yet another historic election. This time President Barack Obama became America’s third consecutive two-term president. Locally, there was even more good news for […]
The Rockland County Times today introduces our College Sports Notebook, compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, who is a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) and former president of the International Boxing Writers Association (IBWA). Maturo urges anyone connected with the collegiate sports scene to keep him […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Sunday afternoon at Trinity United Methodist Church, Hudson Lyric performed perhaps its most ambitious production to a limited audience. Sandy after-effects held down the attendance, but the show went on. And it went on very well, with a 15-piece orchestra, some added new talent and some very good performances from the opera […]
Dear Editor, This past April I brought my cat to the Firemen’s Training Center for a rabies vaccination which was run by the Rockland County Health Department. My cat was enclosed in a carrying case. When it was my cat’s turn for a shot, and even before I blinked my eyes the veterinarian opened the […]