In the wake of a rainy week and Tuesday’s torrential downpour, County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert have lifted the Modified Stage II Water Emergency, effective immediately. Emergency conditions were originally put in place Thursday 8/18/2022 and established a number of restrictions on water use. Fortunately, those limitations have […]
It’s been 20 years since America was forever changed by the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. The attack that so shocked and changed the nation is an especially painful memory for the people of Rockland, many of whom lost friends and loved ones on that day and the days since. Just last month, our […]
Rockland sends congratulations to its own baseball star, Patrick Kivlehan, a member of the USA Baseball team who won silver at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. Kivlehan is a former Rutgers star and West Nyack native who is the son of retired Clarkstown Police Department (CPD) Detective Pat Kivelhan. “I always thought the pinnacle would […]
The Rockland Rowing Association recently announced that Charlotte Buck, of Nyack, was selected to the U.S. National Rowing Team. She will be competing in the women’s eight-person race in Tokyo. Buck began rowing with the Rockland Rowing Association during her transition from Nyack High School to Columbia University. She went on to captain her team […]
A history lesson in modern-day horse racing events Britain is considered to be the birthplace of many of the world’s much-loved sports, and one of those is horse racing. The kind of horse racing events that we see drawing huge numbers of spectators and bettors in today’s era actually originated in the U.K. It […]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY WESTCHESTER BUSINESS JOURNAL Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today ordered new restrictions to take effect Sunday in New York when there will be a 100% workforce reduction for all nonessential businesses to combat COVID-19. He denied that the new restrictions on business and personal activity amount to a “shelter in place” order as […]