MARQUIS HOME CARE UNVEILS NEW NAME AT HOLIDAY CELEBRATION

MARQUIS HOME CARE UNVEILS NEW NAME AT HOLIDAY CELEBRATION

Last Tuesday, December 15, local politicians joined friends and employees of the newly named Marquis Home Care at the Friendship Adult Day Center in Spring Valley, NY, to celebrate the holidays. Previously known as All Pro Home and Health Care Services, Marquis Home Care unveiled its new name while restating its vision of enhancing the lives […]

Man wanted for attempted murder arrested on Thruway in Rockland County

BILL DEMAREST RAMAPO – An upstate New York man has been arrested on attempted murder charges after he was spotted on the New York State Thruway in Rockland County on Wednesday afternoon, according to State Police. Police said state troopers, with assistance from Ramapo police, arrested Christopher L. Cowen, 23, of Cohoes, N.Y. He was […]

Shades Rep Theatre, Haverstraw Preparing for 2016, Celebrating Black History Month

Shades Rep Theatre, Haverstraw Preparing for 2016, Celebrating Black History Month

BY GEORGE J. DACRE Shades Rep Theatre CEO Samuel Harps has written an intriguing play about the African Globe Theater, the first all-black theater company founded in Lower Manhattan in 1821. Harps’ two-act drama, directed by Mel Hancock, chronicles the theater company’s struggle to perform Othello with an all-black cast, while the popular all-white Park […]

NYS Ramapo Fire Consolidation Study Completed

PRESS RELEASE SUBMITTED BY COUNCILMAN DANIEL FRIEDMAN An independent study of the government consolidation proposal initiated by Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman has been completed by the firm CGR, which has worked on numerous consolidation and dissolution projects across New York State. The results of the study verify the long-touted benefits that consolidating several fire districts […]

VETERAN ANGRY AT DEGENERATE WHO STOLE COLLECTION JAR

To the Editor, My name is Ted Goodman and I am a member of Vietnam Veterans of America, Rockland County, NY, Chapter 333. One of the missions of Chapter 333 is to raise money to purchase hand cycles for returning disabled Iraqi and Afghanistan veterans with spinal cord injuries and/or leg amputations. Many of your […]

ONCE A MAN, TWICE A HERO: Thousands salute NYPD detective Air Force Special Agent Joseph Lemm, killed by suicide bomber in Afghanistan

Special Agents Joseph Lemm, Louis Bonocasa, Chester McBride, Michael Cinco, Adrianna Vorderbruggen, and Peter Taub were killed by a suicide bomber in a village near Bagram Air Base Afghanistan on Monday, December 21. Two U.S. Air Force Security Forces airmen who were with them were wounded in the attack. The remains of Lemm, a West […]