• Statement from County Executive Ed Day

    I am absolutely outraged and disheartened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine to overthrow their democratically elected government. I stand with Rockland County’s Ukrainian community, consisting of 1,267 Rockland residents who were born in the Ukraine and 2,212 Rockland residents with Ukrainian ancestry, in condemning this terrible atrocity unfolding overseas. I want to remind all […]

  • Ballot access/designating petition reform legislation to be announced by Senators Elijah Reichlin-Melnick and Rachel May, joined by colleagues

    ALBANY, NY – Senators Elijah Reichlin-Melnick and Rachel May will host a press conference to announce the introduction of new legislation to reform the designating petition process of placing a candidate’s name on the ballot for an election. The legislation is designed to make it easier for candidates to get their name on the ballot […]

  • Skoufis Secures $25,000 in Anti-Violence Funding for RECAP

    Senator James Skoufis (D-Hudson Valley) has secured $25,000 to support anti-violence prevention programming by the Regional Economic Community Action Program (RECAP). Committed within the state’s 2021 budget in support of the Community Violence Intervention Act, the funding will enable RECAP to fight gun violence in local communities while complementing increased accountability for perpetrators of gun […]

  • Rockland Behavioral Health Response Team to Get New Coordinator; Founding Administrative Coordinator Tracie Florida to Continue as Clinician

    ROCKLAND COUNTY (February 23, 2022) — Rockland Behavioral Health Response Team (BHRT) has announced that its Administrative Coordinator, Tracie Florida, LMSW, is leaving the organization, effective February 1. Florida, who was a founding member of the BHRT team, will continue to serve as a per diem clinician for the agency. “Tracie’s devotion to BHRT has […]

  • “Let Us Disappear into the Plants” Solo Exhibit by Rebecca Pry is on Display at STAC’s Azarian McCullough Art Gallery

    (SPARKILL, NY – February 22, 2022) – The Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Rebecca Pry titled “Let Us Disappear into the Plants”. The exhibit runs from Wednesday, February 16th to April 6th, 2022. This new body of work seeks to expand the field of illustrative painting […]

  • RCC Student Literary Magazine Impulse 2021 Wins Prestigious ACP Award

    ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. (February 22, 2022) – The Associated College Press (ACP) named 12 student-produced collegiate magazines as the “best of the best” last fall. Twenty-four magazines produced at both four-year and two-year institutions representing 17 states made it to the finals; Rockland Community College’s literary arts publication Impulse 2021 received one of the 12 Pacemaker […]