BY JANIE ROSMAN On the heels of last week’s meeting with the state monitors, the East Ramapo school board called an emergency meeting Wednesday night. After it opened, the board immediately went into executive session, emerging nearly 90 minutes later to announce Superintendent Joel Klein reached a separation agreement with the district, replaced by interim superintendent […]
The Stony Point PD saved a life after midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning. On September 29 at approximately 12:58 a.m. SPPD officers responded to room #53 of the Stony Point Motel for a call reporting an unresponsive 28-year-old female. Officers determined that the victim had apparently overdosed on heroin and administered one dose of the overdose antidote naloxone. The female victim […]
VALLEY COTTAGE – Clarkstown Police pulled in a big haul on Tuesday morning when they discovered an industrial scale marijuana grow in a Valley Cottage house. The Thomas Court house, which was unoccupied at the time, was searched at about 5 a.m. with the aid of a search warrant. Police subsequently found 200 plants […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert confirmed Tuesday the season’s first human case of West Nile virus in a county resident. The patient is over the age of 50 years and tested positive for the illness based on clinical symptoms and preliminary laboratory findings. The individual was hospitalized September 6 […]
NEW CITY – Valley Cottage residents woke on the morning of September 21 to find their cars had been used by an unknown assailant or assailants for some late night target practice. The suspect or suspects responsible hit 12 cars on Sedge and Ridge roads with what was most likely a BB gun overnight, according […]
DA’S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Monday announced that Juan Perez-Coira (DOB 09/07/70) of Spring Valley, New York, was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison after a bench trial that convicted him of: Two counts of murder in the second degree, class “A” felonies One count of attempted […]