BOCES Overcharging New York State Tax Payers According to an investigation by the Journal News and LoHud.com regional BOCES programs have overcharged New York school districts to the tune $473 million between 2007 and 2011. A recent report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli uncovered that the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) regularly […]
The Rockland County Times publisher emeritus Armand Miele recently was a featured new author at a special reception held at the Palisades Center Mall’s Barnes and Nobles. Around 70 people in all showed up to hear from the authors, around 10 of them. After explaining what his book was to the audience and answering question […]
A new AM inbound train, #1618, will depart Spring Valley at 7:59 a.m. Monday through Friday, stopping at Nanuet at 8:05 a.m. and Pearl River at 8:10 a.m. and then going express to Secaucus, arriving at 8:44 a.m., and Hoboken at 8:56 a.m. Metro-North eliminated the first very early morning departure because of low ridership […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Lowdown on Monday’s Village of Haverstraw board meeting The trustees of the Village of Haverstraw met Monday night at the village hall for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss and vote on several agenda items. The big item on the agenda was the plan by housing developer Ginsberg Development (GDC) to combine […]
The Town of Clarkstown Police Department is currently investigating swastika graffiti found earlier this week drawn on the street outside of a house on Lady Godiva Way in the town of New City. Police responded to the scene around 7:30 a.m. on Monday following a call from a resident who saw the graffiti while getting […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL The North Rockland Central School District School Board, met for their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday evening in the auditorium of North Rockland High School. The board also met last week for a committee of the whole meeting, where items were discussed, but no action was taken. The big question of the night […]