“Onshore” data storage and technical support gains in appeal to companies currently outsourcing BY KATHY KAHN Your business may be your baby, but like all children, the bigger they get, the more space they take up. Eventually, you’ve got to find a place for them to continue growing without building an addition to the house. […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA GARNERVILLE – The expected cost to expand from half-day to full-day kindergarten in the North Rockland Central School District would be between $6 and $13 million over four years, district administrators told the public on August 19. In spite of significant support among both educators and parents, prospects appear grim that the […]
Chair, Rockland County Legislature and Chair, Special Committee on Transit The Rockland County Legislature welcomes the opportunity to share its thoughts with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Reinvention Commission about the need for the MTA to refocus its 2015‐2019 capital program and beyond on the long‐unmet public transit needs of Rockland County. The MTA is […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA VALLEY COTTAGE – The lingering impact of the death of celebrated comedian and actor Robin Williams has given many pause to consider the reality of mental illness and suicide in today’s world. Now, with assistance from the Mental Health Association of Rockland (MHA), county residents can educate themselves and act to prevent […]
ISIL militants claim to have executed captured American reporter Militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a propaganda video on Tuesday showing the execution of a man purported to be American photojournalist James Wright Foley, who went missing in Syria in 2012. The video showed a kneeling man in an […]
BY CHRIS FAULKNER California, Nevada, and much of the southwest are experiencing major droughts. So when Golden State lawmakers killed a bill that would have banned the practice of hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking” — environmentalists cried foul. These “fractivists” claim the controversial drilling technique sucks up limited water supplies and exacerbates droughts. That claim […]