Not many saw Donald Trump’s rise to frontrunner status of the GOP presidential nomination coming back in July. A political novice who had been a sometimes less than serious personality in his prior incarnation as reality star and tabloid headliner, Trump caught the entire GOP field sleeping as he found hot button issues in trade, […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Mason and brick layer James McKenna, born of County Tyrone Ireland, has worked in the masonry trade since age 16 in his native country. The grit and spirit of his trade shows in his no nonsense and down to earth personality. He gives the sense of a craftsman when you deal with him. “I’ve been taught […]
Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and Ramapo Local Development Corporation officers John Brunson and Moses Gross handed interim directorship of the Ramapo LDC to St. Lawrence’s longtime gal pal Kerry Potter during a November 20, 2015 meeting, the Rockland County Times has learned. Potter took the extra responsibilities at no additional salary expense to the taxpayers. St. Lawrence divorced his wife of many […]
The membership of the Latino National Republican Coalition of Rockland County voted this week to endorse NY businessman and presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump for the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America. LNRC Chairman Anthony Mele, a former Republican Congressional candidate, described Trump as a “once in a 100 year populist,” similar to Teddy […]
Senator Bill Larkin (R,C,I- 39th District) announced this week that he had secured $250,000 in state funding to help restore Stony Point’s historic Town Hall. The funding comes from a State and Municipal (SAM) funding grant and is one of several SAM grants that the senator has recently obtained for the region. “The historic Town […]
During the Roman Catholic Church’s “Jubilee Year of Mercy” the New York Archdiocese, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is holding a number of “Mercy Saturdays” throughout the area. The cardinal invites north Rocklanders and others to attend the upcoming Mercy Saturday on April 16, at the Salesian National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in […]