By Rockland County Executive Ed Day As many of you already know, the herculean task of transferring ownership of Summit Park entered its final stages this month. On Thursday, August 6th, the New York State Department of Health’s Public Health and Health Planning Council approved the two certificates of need required to accomplish the transfer. […]
A day fighting the Islamic State: A Rocklander’s tale BY ADAM LUCENTE Baqofah, Iraq-Kurdistan region, Roughly two miles from the Islamic State (IS) The Peshmerga (the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq) stop our car at a check point. My driver, my interpreter, myself and a member of Dwekh Nawsha get out. We […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN What began as a peaceful rally against the East Ramapo school board last Saturday erupted into a heated cursing argument involving police. Advocacy group Get Up, Stand Up: East Ramapo and their children were demonstrating at Spring Valley Memorial Park, calling for school board member Bernard Charles to resign. When he and […]
Thursday’s actions by the New York State Department of Health represent a giant step toward the successful sale of Summit Park. Now that Sympaticare’s licenses have been approved for both the hospital and the nursing care center, the Rockland County Health Facilities Corporation (the LDC) is free to move forward with the Purchase and Sale […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day In 1854, Dr. John Snow tracked down the cause of deadly cholera outbreaks in London to contaminated water and convinced local officials to remove the handle from a well’s water pump to end the threat. Fifty years later, an intrepid New York City Health Department epidemiologist named George Soper […]
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 […]