On Monday, July 23, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., the Rockland Boulders and Ovations Food Services will be hosting a blood and bone marrow donor drive at Rockland Boulders Baseball, located at 1 Provident Bank Park Drive in Pomona, in honor of 5-year-old Gabrielle DiCarlo. She was diagnosed with cancer in January and has […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE More than 260 people attended a fundraiser on Saturday at the K.C. 581 Units Hall in Haverstraw to help the family of six-year-old Gabrielle DiCarlo. Gabrielle is reported to be in good spirits and getting stronger. Gene Barnum and Angie Amengual were co-chairman of the KC event that featured a show, […]
North Rockland’s unofficial favorite mascot Freedom sadly was euthanized on May 15 due to complications from cancer. Freedom was very popular in the Stony Point-Haverstraw area and was known to many in the rest of Rockand and Orange counties. He was often seen with his owner and trainer Bill McGuire hanging out of the window […]
The Fear of Cancer The Rockland County Times has often re-run this popular Musing. In honor of all those struggling against cancer, we reprint it again, as published in my book, Born Minus: From Shoeshine Boy To News Publisher, An Italian-American Story. You have worked hard all your life, and taken care of your family […]