BY CAROL MCILMURRAY The Ramapo Town Board will consider a proposed law to give a 5-year tax exemption for first-time buyers of newly constructed homes on August 27 at 7 p.m. The new law, if adopted, would give first-time homebuyers, whose spouse didn’t purchase a home within the past three years, a 5-year tax exemption […]
BY STATE SENATOR DAVID CARLUCCI Across the country, individuals, families, and communities, both rich and poor, have been impacted by the opioid epidemic. On average 115 people die every day from an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rockland and Westchester Counties have not been immune. In 2017, both counties […]
BY TINA TRASTER Camp Ramah has been a beloved day-camp in the Town of Clarkstown for more than a half century. Neighbors on Christian Herald and Mountainview Avenue are accustomed to the summer bustle of children and counselors moving back and forth on the road but balked this spring when the camp attempted to turn […]
BY E.J. McMAHON From the Empire Center The newly enacted federal income law provision limiting state and local tax (SALT) deductions “is likely to substantially decrease home values” in New York, Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. So claims a federal lawsuit filed by those four states against the Trump administration with the goal of having the $10,000 […]
Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) this week announced that as of July 1, 2018, a new regulation went into effect to address aggressive real estate solicitation in the incorporated Village of Chestnut Ridge in Rockland County, NY. The regulation prohibits real estate brokers, real estate salespeople, and other persons regularly engaged in the buying and selling […]
Some Pharmacists Prohibited From Informing Consumers Of Cheapest Prescription Medication Options New City, NY (June 28, 2018) – If you went to the drugstore to pick up a prescription and could pay $100 instead of $125, what would you choose to pay? As things stand now, you don’t necessarily have a choice. That’s because some pharmacists […]