Local Teen and Cancer Survivor Named Honored Hero for Westchester/Rockland Light The Night Walk

Local Teen and Cancer Survivor Named Honored Hero for Westchester/Rockland Light The Night Walk

  The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Connecticut Westchester Lower Hudson Valley Chapter announced Charlie Levine as Honored Hero for the 2017 Light The Night® (LTN) Walk on Saturday, November 4 at Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow. To inspire fundraising, Charlie attended a rally for the “Greene Team,” comprised of LLS  employees at the national headquarters in Rye Brook. […]

Residents’ Lawsuit Stalls Controversial Land Development Project

Residents’ Lawsuit Stalls Controversial Land Development Project

BY JOEL GROSSBARTH A lawsuit filed by residents opposing a commercial land development project along Route 202 in Haverstraw has successfully challenged a finding by the Town Planning Board. In Matter of Green Earth Farms Rockland, LLC v. Town of Haverstraw Planning Board, an appeals court in Brooklyn ruled that the Town of Haverstraw Planning […]

Legislature Backs Tightening Of Campaign

Legislature Backs Tightening Of Campaign

Falciglia: Contributions Should Come From Company Profits, Not Individuals’ Pockets New City, NY (Aug. 4, 2017) – Political donations should occur in the light of day – and that demands changing state law, a move the Rockland County Legislature is calling for after voting 14-0 Wednesday to require that political donations come only from an ongoing […]

Pyramid Mall Takes Back $20 Million from Taxpayers

Pyramid Mall Takes Back $20 Million from Taxpayers

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – In a unanimous vote at a joint session on the evening of July 23, representatives of the Town of Clarkstown and the Clarkstown Central School District approved an agreement with Eklecco Newco LLP (associated with Pyramid Management, LLC), which owns the Palisades Center Mall, to settle pending tax certiorari […]

Clarkstown Claims Eminent Domain

BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL At a special town board meeting for the Town of Clarkstown on Tuesday, January 15, there was a public hearing on the “acquisition (by condemnation) of a permanent easement on a portion of property known as 59.18-1-22. Clarkstown Comptroller Edward Duer questioned witnesses about the property, which is located at 160 […]

Smokers’ Rights Group Sues New York State Parks Department Over ”No Smoking” Signs

NYC Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment (C.L.A.S.H.) has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) and its commissioner, Rose Harvey, seeking to have misleading “Smoking Prohibited” signs removed from state parks, pools, beaches and historic sites. The suit comes after C.L.A.S.H. objected in May to the […]