Gasoline Sales Tax Capped at $2 Through February 2023 New City, NY – Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Legislature Chairman Jay Hood Jr. remind residents the local sales cap tax on motor fuel, which is capped at $2 per gallon, goes into effect tomorrow, June 1. The change means local sales tax will only be […]

“With the release of finalized State Senate maps that aggressively carved up our existing district, my family, team, and I found ourselves with an incredibly difficult decision to make over the past two weeks. We considered every available option to determine how best to continue serving the people of the Hudson Valley, and I am […]

Barbara E. Weintraub (nee Fadul), 88, of Tappan, NY, passed away on Thursday, May 26, 2022. She was the beloved mother of Lori Lambert and her husband Rip of Baldwin, MD and Meryl Samouhos of Palisades Park, NJ. Proud grandmother of Morgan, Max, Alexander and Kendall. Dearest sister of the late Albert Fadul and Margaret […]

Supervisor Michael Specht attended the Haitian Flag Day Parade of Unity on Sunday May 22nd along with (from left to right) Legislator Toney Earl, Chestnut Ridge Trustee Grant Valentine, Spring Valley Deputy Mayor Zack Clerina, Deputy Supervisor Brendel-Logan Charles, Lesly Senatus of Panik Haitian Radio, Assemblyman Mike Lawler, Officer Herve Mondestin of the Rockland County […]

Supervisor Michael Specht, Police Chief Martin Reilly, District Attorney Tom Walsh and Ramapo Police Officers met with residents of the town for “Coffee with a Cop” at Hava Java. Residents were able to meet our police officers, ask questions, and interact in an informal setting.

We mourn the ten people murdered in a racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022 and the nineteen children and two teachers murdered in an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022. Words are inadequate to express the horror, hatred and sheer evil of these senseless attacks […]