By Kathy Kahn Like the proverbial lizard wearing a velvet glove, Ramapo supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence seems just as smug and self-assured as he did before U.S. Attorney Preet Bahrara handed down a 30-page criminal indictment against him. The town board’s Wednesday, May 11 meeting, hosted by the 16-year incumbent supervisor, was a bitter brawl between those […]
A 5K Fun Run sponsored by Senator David Carlucci will be held next Thursday, May 19 in support of the Larissa Karasik Foundation. Sadly, last May in Warren County, New York, Felix Festa Middle School student Larissa Karasik was killed when a vehicle driven by a drunk driver drove through a stop sign and crashed […]
Introducing our new monthly food review column; “Dinner is Served” with Col. Andrew J. Smith The Hard Wok Buffet in New City; Quite Possibly the Best Deal in Rockland Col. Andrew J. Smith This month I decided to dine at one of my familiar haunts, The Hard Wok Buffet on Route 304 in New City. […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Pearl River area residents who have long opposed a planned 24-hour warehouse and storage facility in a wooded area of the hamlet center were dismayed last week when the Orangetown Planning Board voted 4-1, with one abstention and one absence, to grant final site plan approval to […]
Matz Excels and Harvey Improves By Joe Rini What will Bartolo Colon do for an encore? Hit two home runs in one game? How about stealing home? Perhaps leaping a tall building in a single bound? With a league leading 49 home runs through 32 games, the first place Mets are on pace to smash […]
BY PAUL SPERRY Hillary’s rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy. The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher rents in pricey areas, such as Westchester County, while assigning them […]