Thruway corridor improvements and a streamlined system are slated by 2018

Thruway corridor improvements and a streamlined system are slated by 2018

STORY AND PHOTO BY JANIE ROSMAN Sixteen months after it recommended rapid transit when the new bridge opens in 2018, the transit task force rolled out Phase 1 — a $91 million Suffern-Tarrytown-White Plains line — last week. At his first such public meeting after the State Senate approved him mid-June, Thruway Authority Executive Director,  […]

Volunteer Reading Program Expands in Rockland County

Volunteer Reading Program Expands in Rockland County

BY JANIE ROSMAN Kindergarteners in the East Ramapo Early Childhood Center will have a surprise next fall from the Tales for Tots Literacy Program. “The single most important activity for building knowledge for their eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children,” according to Becoming a Nation of Readers,a 1985 report by the Commission […]