Dear Commissioner Elia and Chancellor Tisch, Last week’s events at the previous East Ramapo Central School District board meeting truly underscore the need for New York State to finally take action and remove certain (if not all) board members from the ERCSD Board of Education. The board has shown time and time again that they […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Rockland County’s Office of Fire and Emergency Services this week took part in a scheduled exercise to test response plans developed to protect the public in the event of an emergency at Indian Point. The state-evaluated drill involved a fictitious radioactive emergency at the nuke plant and assessed the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND The world has gone all topsy-turvy. Citizens can no longer speak their minds and have conversations about differing points of view. Facts don’t seem to matter much anymore. And there seems to be this universally accepted idea that one must prostrate themselves while publicly apologizing if they utter something that might — […]
To the Editor, This morning I woke up and said to myself, Obama fooled enough Americans twice and got elected, now look at what we have: a county, Iran, that is the biggest promoter of terror, which our government has given a path to secure a nuclear weapon. I pray to God the voters see […]
Dear Rockland County Times, It is bad enough that anyone should be subject to advice from financial professionals that puts those advisors’ own interests above those of the investor. But is is even worse that retirees, who depend on their investment income for their daily living needs, can be taken advantage of by these same […]
REGARDING LEGAL ACTION BY OPPONENTS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD We are making significant progress in East Ramapo. We’ve made many changes in recent months to strengthen finances, operations and community relations. Moreover, thanks to an increase in resources from the state, we’ve been able to restore some of the programs we were forced to cut […]