Larkin delivers aid to North Rockland schools

Larkin delivers aid to North Rockland schools

THE 2017-18 STATE BUDGET IS A BIG WIN FOR NORTH ROCKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT STATEMENT FROM SENATOR WILLIAM J. LARKIN (R- 39th DISTRICT) In addition to a $1.8 million increase in total school aid funding, the state budget includes the Senate’s honest, real proposals to help the district, including $4 million in special grants specifically for North […]

ERSD Awards $27 Million Contract To Brega Transport?

ERSD Awards $27 Million Contract To Brega Transport?

FROM RAMAPO WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW FACEBOOK GROUP Are the taxpayers of East Ramapo less important than the taxpayers of Rockland County? We understand that the East Ramapo School District yesterday awarded a 5 year contract worth upwards of $27 million to Brega Transport. This the same company whose owner is under […]

Spring Valley Library Celebrates 100th

Spring Valley Library Celebrates 100th

The Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley is celebrating its 100th anniversary onSunday, April 23 by re-creating the day it was first opened. There will be a ribbon-cutting with decorations, music (performed by the Spring Valley Marching band along with other guitarists and drummers), refreshments and Boy and Girl Scouts presenting the American Flag. The […]

Firefighters hold annual Old-Timer’s Award night

Firefighters hold annual Old-Timer’s Award night

BY JOHN KRYGER Five volunteer firefighters were honored Saturday, April 15, at the Rockland County Fire Chief’s Association’s Old-Timers Awards Night and dinner held at Krucker’s Catering and Picnic Grove in Pomona. More than 250 current and former Rockland fire chiefs, along with County Executive Ed Day, gathered to honor their own at the annual […]

Westbound span nearing completion; will open sometime this year

Westbound span nearing completion; will open sometime this year

BY JANIE ROSMAN Sunny weather has been drawing visitors to Nyack’s Memorial Park, where Holly Desher and a friend were watching the I Lift NY, stationed near the Rockland shoreline, through a high-powered lens. Last month the super crane resumed setting structural steel on the eastbound span utilizing a different process. Assemblies lifted from the […]