The Rockland County Times has obtained pre-absentee ballot district-by-district vote tallies for the county executive and Surrogate Court justice primaries. The two hotly contested elections display the degree to which the Rockland electorate has coalesced into “Ramapo bloc vote” vs. “Anti-Ramapo bloc vote” camps. The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – County executive candidate Legislator Ed Day has initiated court proceedings against Conservative Party opportunity-to-ballot candidate Simon Leschinsky, alleging petitioning irregularities. Proceedings began on July 29 and continued through the week with a presentation of evidence by Day’s attorney Byron C. McKim to the Honorable Gerald B. Loehr. The defense […]
Former Airmont mayor and Sloatsburg building inspector pleads guilty to misdemeanor and receives light sentence The DA’s probe into the activities of former Sloatsburg Building Inspector John Layne have ended somewhat anti-climactically, as Layne pled guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of “official misconduct” and received a one-year conditional discharge. If Layne does not get […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – Rockland County Legislators Frank Sparaco (R – Valley Cottage) and Ed Day (R – New City) called a press conference on March 6 to announce a unanimous resolution calling on the county executive and county attorney to comply with a recent court order demanding the execution of a contract […]