The Willows at Ramapo Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, formerly Ramapo Manor Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, has completed an extensive multi-million dollar renovation project transforming the center into a leading healthcare provider. The renovation project marks the completion of an effort to enhance Suffern’s leading resource for skilled nursing care and rehabilitation. The community has been renamed as […]
Overdose deaths spike in upstate NY New York has seen a significant increase in drug-related deaths over a recent six year period, officials report. From 2010 through 2015, a report showed deaths by overdosing increased by 71 percent. This issue is more pronounced in the New York City suburbs and upstate. Westchester County was ranked […]
April 30 deadline looms BY KATHY KAHN Phillip Mathangani, whose parents immigrated from Kenya and settled in Rockland County, watched their son thrive in the North Rockland School District—in Phillip’s free time, he volunteered in his church and the community. The 2006 NRSD student graduated The University of Pennsylvania and went on to a career […]
BY DIANE DIMOND There’s a new forensic tool that’s being developed that’s going to knock your socks off! Investigative science professor Dr. Glen P. Jackson at West Virginia University spoke with me recently about his advances in crime fighting, and while it’s all kind of science-y, I think you’ll agree it is fascinating. Professor Jackson […]
BY OLEG KHAGHANI In the year 2000 the Federal Government passed the law allowing physicians who go through a special training and have passed a test, to prescribe suboxone for the purpose of treating opioid addiction. In the early years following this legislation, the number of the patients that each doctor could treat was limited […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County officials met with Chinese representatives this week to discuss closer economic ties. Deputy County Executive Guillermo Rosa and Rockland Director of Tourism and Economic Growth Lucy Redzeposki hosted a meeting at the Finkelstein Library in Spring Valley with the America Beijing Chamber of Commerce. Man Li Lin of the U.S. […]
