Blauvelt – Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco III and Undersheriff Robert Van Cura will present an overview of potential dangers to the greater New York area from international terrorism, rogue regimes, and competitor countries, at a meeting of the Rockland Republican Women’s Leadership Council at 7 p.m. on January 13 in the Community Room of […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN The newly constituted Stony Point Town Board, with recently elected councilmen Tom Basile and Jim Monaghan attending for the first time, held its 2014 reorganization on a frigid night last Tuesday. The new members were about the only thing that changed; most of the appointments and designations remain the same as last […]
Clarkstown calls out religious school for continuing to use unsafe building Attorneys with the Town of Clarkstown are preparing to present evidence in court that Congregation Lizensk, a religious group which operates several schools in Rockland County, has moved back into a Clarkstown building despite being ordered to vacate. The attorneys stated Congregation Lizensk’s South Central […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – The Town of Clarkstown is known for being safe and crime has continued to ebb in recent years, but a small criminal culture does continue to persist in the town’s underbelly, Clarkstown Chief of Police Michael Sullivan told the New City Rotary Club this week. According to Sullivan, the […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN At the regular School Board meeting Tuesday night, North Rockland schools Superintendent Ileana Eckert gave a presentation highlighting both the budgetary issues the district is facing as well as the educational successes the schools have achieved. It could have been referred to as a “state of the district” address, similar to “state […]
It was started by a group of friends from Hoover Place, Stony Point a decade and a half ago and has budded into a full blown community tradition. We’re talking about the Stony Point Seals annual Polar Plunge, of course, where hundreds of brave souls gather at the Stony Point seawall on the morning of […]