PRESS RELEASE – County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Social Services Joan Silvestri announced that the County of Rockland will recognize November of 2018 as National Adoption Month. Each November, staff from the Rockland County Department of Social Services’ (DSS) Children’s Services Unit join with local Wendy’s franchisees to celebrate National Adoption Month to […]
PRESS RELEASE – The Office of Financial Aid at St. Thomas Aquinas College is offering two FAFSA Completion Workshops that are free and open to anyone in the community that wants to understand the financial aid process when applying for college financial assistance. “This is the College’s way of giving back to the community, near […]
Private brand items will contain no synthetic colors, artificial flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, MSGs or high fructose corn syrup Stop & Shop today announced a landmark commitment to make the private brand products it provides to its customers cleaner and more natural by 2025. Stop & Shop will remove all of the following from all of its private brand […]
By Keith S. Shikowitz On October 18, 2018, the North Rockland Lions and Rotary Clubs sponsored the third annual ‘A Taste of North Rockland.’ Eighteen different restaurants from the North Rockland area showed samples of their stuff at the West Haverstraw Community Center. Approximately 115 guests got a chance to try foods from these restaurants. […]
FREE measles, mumps, rubella vaccine being offered to Rockland community Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert inform residents that the Health Department will be holding measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine clinics on: Thursday, October 25, from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. at the Community Outreach Center, located at 21 […]
BY BARRY WARNER Recently, the United Way of Rockland’s 25th ‘Fall Day of Caring’ brought together more than 200 volunteers to complete essential projects for Rockland County’s nonprofit health and human service providers. The completion of these projects empowered the community services to better serve thousands of people. Celebrated as the largest single-day community service […]