Opportunity Knocks for Young Mets

Opportunity Knocks for Young Mets

RCT Interviews Matt Reynolds BY JOE RINI For nearly everyone, trading players like Jay Bruce and Curtis Granderson since the end of July has signaled the raising of the white flag on the 2017 postseason hopes for the Mets and the start of a long slow slog through September. However, for infielder Matt Reynolds, it’s […]

LETTER TO EDITOR: Kleiner Insults Veterans with Attacks on Day

LETTER TO EDITOR: Kleiner Insults Veterans with Attacks on Day

To the Editor, As a Pearl River resident and Air Force veteran (Operation Enduring Freedom), I’ve continued to read with disgust, both in your pages and on social media, candidate for town supervisor Thom Kleiner and his campaign repeatedly denigrate our military and veterans in their desire to attack decorated Army combat veteran Chris Day. […]

HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL TO HONOR LOCAL REHABILITATION PATIENTS – SEPT 19, 2017

HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL TO HONOR LOCAL REHABILITATION PATIENTS – SEPT 19, 2017

Helen Hayes Hospital will host its 117th annual Honors Assembly on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. in the hospital’s atrium. The event recognizes the outstanding achievements of the physical rehabilitation hospital’s patients over the past year and will honor patients from Rockland, Orange and Putnam Counties who have overcome incredible odds during their rehabilitation journey, inspiring others along the way. The Honors Assembly […]

Thank a Reporter

Thank a Reporter

BY DIANE DIMOND The woman’s face was contorted with anger as she thrust a finger at the media scrum covering a campaign event and yelled: “I hate you all! Liars! You should be in prison!” Memory fades. I can’t recall which presidential candidate this woman had turned out to support last year, but I will […]

County Executive’s Corner: Budget Season Challenges

County Executive’s Corner: Budget Season Challenges

  By Rockland County Executive Ed Day We know summer is really over when our kids go back to school and we see yellow buses on the streets of Rockland every morning and afternoon. But for those of us in government, the end of summer signals something else: Budget season. The Rockland County Charter requires […]

CARLUCCI REMAINS OUT FRONT IN FIGHT AGAINST OPIOID EPIDEMIC

CARLUCCI REMAINS OUT FRONT IN FIGHT AGAINST OPIOID EPIDEMIC

Deaths due to opioid overdose are in decline in the United States according to recent medical surveys with the overdose antidote naloxone (Narcan) credited as a main cause of this positive trend. State Senator David Carlucci is one of the New York lawmakers leading the Narcan awareness effort. Carlucci has supported legislation that made the […]