PRESS RELEASE County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef has announced that the Department of Public Transportation recently retrofitted one of its bus shelters with solar panels and a light box designed to provide cost-efficient and reliable power, increased safety and improved delivery of customer information for its Transport of Rockland (TOR) and TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) bus […]
The Rockland County Times confirms that guards were hired and remain posted in front of the homes of Journal News President Janet Hasson and Journal News Executive Editor Cynthia Lambert, alias CynDee Royle. The home of a lower level editor visited by the Rockland County Times did not have a guard posted. Previously the presence of […]
Since February 2008 Stony Pointers have had to put up with a huge vacancy near the heart of their town. The formerly bustling Stony Point Center strip mall at 156-168 S. Liberty Dr. that was the home of Stop and Shop supermarket and several other stores has been mostly empty since Stop and Shop moved to […]
REPORT BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The intentions of the Journal News’ editorial board in publishing a highly controversial “interactive gun map” are further occluded by an inconvenient fact. According to Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato, in Rockland County a large number of the names and addresses on the map are not even correct. Piperato said, […]
Support also vowed for tighter restrictions on gun permit information BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The Journal News editorial board and publisher Janet Hasson were condemned today by law enforcement, a bipartisan group of legislators, County Clerk Paul Piperato and the five major political parties of Rockland County, for their publication of an interactive map exposing the […]
Rockland County Legislator Frank Sparaco will announce a resolution to condemn the decision by the Journal News to post the names and addresses of lawful pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester Counties. Legislators Jay Hood, Jr., Aron Wieder, Toney Earl and Christopher Carey will join Sparaco to condemn the action. Legislators Sparaco, Schoenberger, Hood, […]