BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY As the effort to find a suitable buyer for the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center forges ahead, I’ve been asked to remind county residents of the leading role played by the Local Development Corporation, or LDC, during this complex process. Under the previous administration, the county formed […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE This is the life story of two sisters who lived to be over 100 and how they survived the travails of segregated North Carolina, then moving to New York City and ultimately to Mt. Vernon in Westchester County. The sisters, Sadie and Bessie Delaney, were black with a lot of white […]
At a congregational meeting held Monday evening, March 31, Nanuet Hebrew Center congregants voted by an overwhelming majority to change its traditional membership dues to a forward thinking self-directed pledge structure. This will recognize Nanuet Hebrew Center as one of the first synagogues in the NY Metropolitan area to adopt a self-directed structure. Co-President Adam […]
BY DREW JOHNSON While running for reelection in 2012, President Obama repeatedly claimed that he would pursue an “all of the above” energy policy. But after winning a second term, his administration seems to have decided that “all of the above” doesn’t include oil, natural gas or coal. In just the past year, the Environmental […]
The Welles Remy Crowther Red Bandana Memorial Scholarship through the Rockland Community Foundation was established by his family as a way of honoring Welles’ legacy. It awards a $1,000 scholarship to a deserving Rockland County high school graduate choosing to pursue a career in fire and emergency services or health related services. “We were delighted […]
Richard “Nunker” Brooks, ex-chief of W.H.F.D, former Rockland County Deputy (44-3) Coordinator, and Fifty-Eight year member of S.W.Johnson S.F.E.Co No1 of Garnerville,N.Y. Honored with the Charles M. Fales award at the Rockland County Fire Chief’s association dinner on March 29,2014, before a group of Two-Hundred & Sixty at the event!