About two short years after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge popped up on Facebook pages all over the world, ALS IBC Co-Founder and Yonkers resident Pat Quinn is hoping to recreate that same magic after researchers recently discovered a gene directly linked to ALS that may one day help lead to a cure. On Sunday, […]
Rockland County has won a legal case county officials have heralded as “precedent-setting,” establishing the ability of municipalities to use civil penalties against illegal massage parlors and places of prostitution. Rockland County Attorney Thomas Humbach prevailed in a legal case against New City Spa, a business at 55-71 S. Main St., where workers have been […]
Day cites Legislature’s decision to delay Sain sale as cause of deficit PRESS RELEASE FROM COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE Rockland County has filed its second quarter report to the state Comptroller, which once again shows the strong progress the county is making just three years after earning the shameful designation of most fiscally stressed in the state. […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE A three-day deluge that dropped 2.48 inches of much-needed rain over Rockland County helped recharge reservoirs but was not enough to end water restrictions. The Stage II Water Emergency declared July 21 by Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert remains in effect. “We still have to be extremely careful with our […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE VILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY POLICE DEPT. Eddy Perez-Zenteno, 31, of 52 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the first degree for an alleged attack against a transgender male. The Spring Valley Police Department (SVPD) responded to a report of […]
First pool (group) of mosquitoes to test positive this season for West Nile Virus in Rockland County COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert today announced that the first pool, or group, of mosquitoes to test positive this year in Rockland County for West Nile Virus […]