Remembering Our Heroes Stony Point proclaimed August 10 Edward G. Kwiecinski day, a proud WW2 veteran who will celebrate his 100th birthday on that day. Fellow veterans led the opening of the July 24 meeting in the Pledge of Allegiance. A native of North Rockland who has called Stony Point home for over 50 years, […]
Two hundred members of the New York Guard, the state’s volunteer state defense force, are conducting their week-long annual training at Camp Smith Training Site August 6-12. The New York Guard is a force of 500 uniformed volunteers, organized as a military unit, who augment the New York National Guard during state emergencies. They provide administrative […]
Yesterday afternoon Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) joined the FountainView Senior Living Community to celebrate the 102nd Birthday of World War 2 Veteran Albert Penchansky. Penchansky enlisted on Aug. 18, 1941, and was eventually promoted to sergeant in the Finance Department in England and France before he was discharged on Oct. 13, 1945. He went on […]
Below are the federal income tax rates that went into effect under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, and remained in place for over 30 years. Roosevelt’s tax rates kept America in the Depression until he got us into World War II. He knew the Japanese were planning to attack Pearl Harbor, but did not even […]
On Tuesday, June 19, the 65th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, a unit of soldiers from Puerto Rican, referred to as the “Borinqueneers,” was recognized and honored by a commemorative stamp. These soldiers served the U.S. during World War I, II and the Korean War. They fought hard despite the fact that they could […]