The Chamber Alliance of Rockland County has officially been born. The Alliance was created to bring together members of all the chambers in the county for networking, sharing of resources, educational opportunities, group savings, and more. So far six Chambers are participating including Nanuet, North Rockland, New City, Nyack, Pearl River, Piermont and Suffern. […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The concept of medical marijuana has gained broad acceptance across America’s demography even while politicians and government bureaucracies in Washington D.C. continue to stymie policy change. National polls commissioned by Yahoo and Quinnipiac this year measured public support for federal acceptance of medical marijuana at 83 and 94 percent respectively, an overwhelming political […]
FROM GASBUDDY Average retail gasoline prices in New York have fallen 4.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.69/g Monday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. This compares with the national average that has fallen 6.0 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.47/g, according to […]
BY JOE KUHN PEARL RIVER- It’s somewhat ironic to characterize a mutual fund, an investment program that typically buys and sells major Wall Street stocks, as a small local business. After all, it’s hard to reconcile the mom and pop ambience of a locally based family business with the high stakes world of stock trading. […]
MAST Construction Services, Inc., a Little Falls, New Jersey-based owner’s representative, project and construction management services firm, has announced the promotion of Blauvelt resident Jim Napolitano to vice president. Napolitano, a 20-year construction industry veteran, was formerly a project executive at MAST and, before that, was a senior project manager at the firm. In his […]
Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI) announced yesterday that Jennifer Laird-White will become the new director of Community Relations for the company’s Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission project. The Champlain Hudson Power Express Project is a completely buried, 333-mile HVDC transmission line that will be installed underwater and underground predominantly along existing rights-of-way, originating at the U.S.-Canada […]