BY MICHAEL RICONDA Valley Cottage – State legislators representing various districts in Rockland County invited local municipal, business, and nonprofit leaders to the Valley Cottage Library on February 14 for a joint session to discussing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal. State Legislators in attendance included Senator David Carlucci, Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, Assemblyman James Skoufis, Assemblywoman […]
Members of the Thiells United Methodist Church have scheduled the Greatest Little Vendor Fair In Rockand County for March 9(rain/snow date March 16) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to benefit the Closet Thrift Shoppe, which has been closed several months since Hurricane Sandy came along. Ann Dacre, Maureen Strongin and Carol Anderson are heading […]
Orangetown Commits to Long-Awaited Project BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Orangetown’s Town Board and Palisades residents came to an agreement Tuesday evening to spend about $75,000 of taxpayer funds to construct a new quarter-mile-long sidewalk along Oak Tree Road in that community’s quaint rural hamlet center. The proposal was one of five […]
Carly Zenker, 16, granddaughter of former longtime Rockland resident Stephen Laub, won first prize in the national NFTY competition for designing a logo commemorating Israel’s 65th birthday. NFTY, the North American Federation of Temple Youth, is the organized youth movement of Reform Judaism in North America. About 750 local youth groups affiliate themselves with the […]
[update—the RGA website has been restored. The site was back up about an hour after they first learned it had been hacked] The website of a security firm that had been hired by anti-gun newspaper the Journal News has been hacked. RGA Investigations website has been taken over by a group calling itself “Yildiray – […]
BY HARRIET CORNELL Chairwoman, Rockland County Legislature To the Editor, While I am loathe to get into the middle of a contentious race for Rockland County Executive, I am not a candidate and feel compelled to respond to Legislator Day’s misleading, erroneous, and mean-spirited comments regarding my relationship with the law enforcement community in Rockland […]