Last Sunday, the candidates for Clarkstown Supervisor met at JCC Rockland to field questions from their constituents and pitch their vision for the future of the town as election day draws near. Current Supervisor George Hoehmann used the opportunity to tout improvements to Clarkstown’s fiscal health that have occurred under his tenure including cuts to local property taxes, […]
The County Legislature has unanimously passed a new bill intended to prevent other municipalities from relocating residents to Rockland County. Supporting a recent decision issued by the New York State Supreme Court, which last week issued an injunction prohibiting New York City from housing asylum seekers temporarily at the Armoni Inn in Orangetown or any other Rockland location, the […]
The District 5 Legislator Lon M. Hofstein is running for re-election this year. Born and raised in the Bronx, Hofstein was accepted early admission to the Bernard M. Baruch College, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting. Approximately twenty-three years ago, Lon left a Mid-Town Manhattan C.P.A. […]
Paul C. Cleary was born the youngest of six children in 1960 in Haverstraw, New York. After going to secondary school in Rockland County, he attended Manhattan College in the Bronx, where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering. He then worked in the Defense Industry, completing projects for various contractors. In 2000, he joined […]
The Finkelstein Memorial Library hosted a Zoom book discussion on the New York Times bestseller, “King: A Life,” with author Jonathan Eig and Mondaire Jones, a former Democratic representative and Congressional candidate for New York’s 17th district, last Thursday. Led by Finkelstein’s head of marketing and communications, Maria Vanessa Cipolla, and co-sponsored by Spring […]
After a contentious election season that saw many Democrat incumbents challenged at the state and federal level by an energized Republican base, a partial “red wave” of conservative voters ousted some established liberals in the Empire State and Rockland, while Democrats maintained several key offices. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (D) conceded defeat on Wednesday […]