BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Faced with the sudden potential loss of several historic homes scattered around Rockland County, a Valley Cottage woman has taken on the task of producing a documentary film about the endangered Dutch sandstone structures, in hopes that most, if not all, can be rescued from the wrecking […]
Dear Commissioner Elia and Chancellor Tisch, Last week’s events at the previous East Ramapo Central School District board meeting truly underscore the need for New York State to finally take action and remove certain (if not all) board members from the ERCSD Board of Education. The board has shown time and time again that they […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Rockland County’s Office of Fire and Emergency Services this week took part in a scheduled exercise to test response plans developed to protect the public in the event of an emergency at Indian Point. The state-evaluated drill involved a fictitious radioactive emergency at the nuke plant and assessed the […]
New York State has agreed to make needed repairs to the long-neglected North Rockland section of the Palisades Parkway, filling in holes and repaving the degraded road from Exit 13 in Haverstraw to the Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. The repairs, which will begin in the fall, will be conducted in two phases. In the first […]
BY DIANE DIMOND The world has gone all topsy-turvy. Citizens can no longer speak their minds and have conversations about differing points of view. Facts don’t seem to matter much anymore. And there seems to be this universally accepted idea that one must prostrate themselves while publicly apologizing if they utter something that might — […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA SUFFERN – Suffern’s housing code enforcement authorities have pledged their support for a countywide initiative that aims to crack down on unscrupulous landlords and hazardous housing conditions, according to one of Suffern’s trustees. In a recent release, Trustee Ed Markunas stated that he joined fellow trustee Bob Morris for a July sit […]