COMMUNITY PROFILE: Challenger Little League Enables Kids with Special Needs to Enjoy Baseball on ‘Fields of Dreams’

COMMUNITY PROFILE: Challenger Little League Enables Kids with Special Needs to Enjoy Baseball on ‘Fields of Dreams’

BY BARRY WARNER The District 18 Rockland County Challenger Little League gives kids with special needs the opportunity to succeed at playing baseball in a program structured to their abilities. Winning is not a concern, but making each player feel good is a top priority. Eligibility includes mentally, emotionally and physically challenged youth ages 4-21, […]

Monsey Rabbi Under Fire for Sick Remarks

Monsey Rabbi Under Fire for Sick Remarks

Fairfax Media of Australia revealed in an undercover expose that Rabbi Boruch Dov Lesches, new to a leadership role with Chabad Rockland after 20 years in Sydney, Australia, made outrageous remarks regarding  poor and “goyim” (non-Jewish) children. The story was part of an investigation of who knew what about child sexual abuse in the Yeshiva […]

Gannett Mole: Four Menial Employees Fired in 2013 to Cover Costs from Gun-Map Fallout

ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES EXCLUSIVE How much did all those armed guards and hotel rooms for executive editors cost the Journal News earlier this year, not to mention lost subscribers? The newspaper had to go into virtual lock-down after giving law abiding gun-owners the “sex offender treatment” following the Newtown massacre. Journal News publisher Janet Hasson and […]

Town Files Additional Complaints Against Reimer, Revokes her Pay

Town Files Additional Complaints Against Reimer, Revokes her Pay

The town of Ramapo has filed several disciplinary charges against already-suspended employee Melissa Reimer. Reimer’s pay was stopped after she declared plans to file a defamation lawsuit for being made a “scapegoat” for Ramapo’s unstable financial state. The new charges came after town officials accused Reimer of sending an inaccurate report to the state comptroller, […]

Timelines 7/4/13

LaDuca the Wild Man Joseph LaDuca, of Suffern, promised to “unleash Armageddon on the village” if he did not receive his personal property from the police. On May 30, LaDuca was arrested for public lewdness. Early in June, a private company towed his car, which had a suspended registration. LaDuca made his apocalyptic threats in […]

WATCHFIRE VOLUNTEERS HONORED

WATCHFIRE VOLUNTEERS HONORED

The town of Haverstraw recently honored volunteers from the annual Watchfires ceremony: Mike Hatala, James Mickinowski, Robert Bates, Peter MacTaggart, John Fay, Richard and John Smith, Peter and Jason Novak, Joe Sarvis, Tom Carol and Bill Kelemen. The town presented the volunteers with the Town of Haverstraw Distinguished Service Award at a recent Town Board […]