BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Things are getting interesting in Clarkstown and Stony Point too. On Tuesday, three taxpayer advocates from Clarkstown–blogger Michael N. Hull, Thomas G. Nimick, and failed 2011 GOP supervisor candidate Ralph Sabatini–served the Town of Clarkstown, the town board and Supervisor Alex Gromack with a lawsuit asking for return of taxpayer monies allegedly […]
BY BARRY WARNER The strategy to deter the unthinkable in the Town of Clarkstown was laid out this week. Police plan to make their presence felt at local schools so any bad guy knows the men in blue are ready to arrive at a moment’s notice and might already be there. The announcement was made […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Orangetown Democrat Chris Smith believes one way to shrink government costs is to eliminate your own position. Smith is running for the office of Orangetown receiver of taxes on the plan that he’s the man to help eliminate the position. He is supporting a referendum that residents and town board members are […]
BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL Clarkstown had its annual reorganization meeting last Thursday, January 3. This is the meeting where elected government officials are sworn into office and the town supervisor offers a state of the town address. Town Justice Rolf M. Thorsen was sworn into office by Family Court Jude William Warren. Thorsen was accompanied […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer pushed for FEMA to open a second Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Rockland County, in Piermont, during a tour of the storm-ravaged village of Piermont. “The more disaster recovery centers we can have, the more money will flow to home owners, to store owners, to communities, to […]
BY LEGAL LARRY Transparency in government. This is one of the issues the candidates in the upcoming presidential elections talk about. In New York State the law says government should not be conducting back room deals where the people who elected them cannot be part of the process. Governmental bodies and the politicians that comprise […]