PRESS RELEASE – It’s the “Year of the Rooster,” and Empire City Casino will put forth a traditional Chinese New Year Festival on Sunday, February 12 with a lion dance parade and live musical entertainment. Admission is free. The Lunar New Year celebration will be complete with Chinese dancers and musicians in colorful costumes. First, […]
Andrew Verhille will have his day in court, but the court of public opinion is unlikely to be kind to the 25-year-old New Windsor resident due to a mugshot that uncannily matches the charges against him. The young man, who lists North Rockland High School as his alma mater on his Facebook page, was involved in a […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT, Ombudsman A major project this columnist has strongly supported for months has been revealed as the number one infrastructure priority of the new Trump administration! According to documents obtained by the Kansas City Star, a daily newspaper in Kansas City, MO and then republished by other major media outlets, the Trump administration’s infrastructure consultants placed the upgrade and expansion of NYC metro area mass […]
Circumstances allow Legislator Grant and Democrats to renew budget battle with Day BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Did you think the arduous county budget battle of 2016-17 was settled, with County Executive Ed Day and six of seven Republican legislators narrowly defeating the Democrats on the strength of Day’s veto? Think again! Both sides had been aware […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE John Ade as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Neil Battinelli as Mr. Hyde lead a cast of very talented actors in this classic written many years ago by Robert Louis Stevenson. The result is a first rate production. Jekyll, who wrestles with his desire to look into the good and bad sides of humanity, devises a […]
BY KATHY KAHN While fanfare was humming in the Nation’s capitol, locals from Rockland, the Hudson Valley and Bergen County had a celebration of their own at the Mahwah Sheraton on January 20. More than 150 guests, many in formal attire, watched Trump’s inauguration replayed and joined in toasting the outcome of the election. After […]